Tiger Maintenance Question

I work a small school, and have a question about Tiger maintenance (I use the general term 'Mac' because I am referring to everything from iMac G3's, G5's, Intel iMacs, iBooks andMacBooks). As far as I can tell, what currently passes for maintenance here is copying a disk image of the user's computer from a disk image, and reinstalling it.
My problem is that on my two iMacs at home (a G3/500 and an G5/1.6GHz) I run daily, weekly, and monthly maintenance via the command line, and fsck (I perfer to fsck, as opposed to using Disk Utility because I am learning something) whenever things aren't working as I feel they should; though I can understand why some people find the command line somewhat scary.
I have really grown to dig (I would say 'love' but that's way too creepy) the Mac platform, and it really bugs me when I think that it is being 'mistreated'.
In any case, as far as I can tell there is no maintenance done on our Macs at all (this includes permission repair, which I also do on my own machines regularly), other than what I already mentioned.
I guess what I am asking is that, if I am right, how can I convince our tech person that the command line (or even Disk Utility) doesn't cause a Mac to self-destruct, and how, even if you wipe a drive and restore from a disk image, that you're saving all the problems that were present before you created the disk image, and while the reinstall will help with issues of fragmentation (assuming that they are present) it will do little for any gremlins that have crept into the system.

My immediate answer is: by telling him loudly and clearly that, at least in this, you are correct and know what you are saying and doing!   
I wonder if AppleJack, by being the command line written to by a tried and proved and highly respected utility, might help to convince him.

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