Win7 Base Imange + Addon Images - Am I doing this right?

Ok here is my setup
ZCM 11
I created a base win 7 image. It has the default 100mb partition 1 boot
and he 2nd partition for all the main win 7 stuff (C: drive) etc
I created a Pre Boot Bundle
Image script - all it does is img -pd all to clear any existing images
Win7 Base - Zenimage
Win7 addon unattend - Zenimage (used zen image explorer to extract these
as add on image)
Win7 addon nwclient - zenimage (used zen image explorer to extract these
as add on image)
BUT i think when the above runs it is placing the addon images (or
trying to) to the first partition when it should be placing it in the
2nd partition.
How can I do this correctly
IF i do it in aenworks maintenance mode using the gui manually it works
(cause I selected advanced options to make sure ADDON was select)
how do I do that in the bundle?
Any ideas suggestions

I create the Windows 7 image with both the 100mb boot partition and the "c: drive" partiton already in it. The other images that you use have to be done in one of two different ways.
If you are streaming a secondary image (I do that to include the Novell and ZENWorks client files) then I create the image with zmgexp with two partitions. The first partition is empty. The second contains the directories and files for the Novell and ZENWorks clients. This will always put the files that you want on the "c: drive".
If you are using addon partitions in a script, you don't have to setup two partitions in them. You can just use the command line to direct the partition in the image to whatever partition you want locally.
Here is my script that I run to push down drivers for a specific image after the main OS and Novell client images have been multicast.
Code:
# This will auto detect the System Model and install appropriate image #
#Path for driverbase on server sleszen:/var/opt/novell/zenworks/content-repo/images
driverbase=addons/
#Set cpumodel
cpumodel=`dmidecode -s system-product-name`
#Model specific image to Windows partition (p2)
img rp $PROXYADDR "$driverbase$cpumodel.zmg" a1:p2
reboot
The relevant line is - img rp $PROXYADDR "$driverbase$cpumodel.zmg" a1:p2
This directs the image partition a1 to the local partition p2

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Apple, if you are reading this, this APPLE ID MESS IS A DISASTER!!! Shame on you for screwing long-dedicated customers who inadvertantly now have multiple Apple ID's like this due your switches from mobile me, to .mac to whatever else.
SJ is turning in his grave.

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