Using ARD to reboot into XP

Hello, all,
There are 16 Mac Pro workstations in our lab which have a Bootcamp partition (running Windows XP)... most of the work we do is in OS X, but for one class we run Maya in Windows XP.
I want to remotely reboot from OS X to XP, but I don't want this to affect the default Startup disk (which is set to OS X). Has anyone done this? The "Automated Tasks" feature of ARD seems like it has potential but I haven't seen anything related to rebooting into XP.
I am aware of holding the Option key down upon restarting, but if it's possible to automate the reboot and have the workstations running XP when the students get to class, I'd prefer that.
Thanks for any help!
Phil

Hi Phil,
Try using the "Send UNIX Command" function in ARD with the following command:
/usr/sbin/bless --device /dev/disk0s3 --setBoot --legacy --nextonly
Then reboot. The workstations will reboot into Windows for just the next time. Thereafter they will continue to use OS X as the default startup disk.

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