I have read that article, and following it's advice I was able to get the R2 files onto the disc. However, my boss is insisting that he doesn't want any sort of R2 installation after the base installation. No following the R2 installation prompts after the first boot up. No runonce scripts. Nothing. The files have to be installed along with the rest of windows, and be totally installed and ready on first bootup. I'm going to dig through the technet articles mentioned in the thread you posted. Perhaps I can fumble through the solution there. Until then, though, I'll keep poking around here.