Automatic testing application / scenarios ?

Hi

Since this is more likely handled by programmers, I will try the question in this forum.

I am at @ rather large company where we have a huge load of modules (msi applications) / applications / OS and versions to test upon. Today, for each new version / release we manually need to allocate resources (machines & people) who have to test the scenarios written on paper.

To me this sounds old school, when I read this link:

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/200.../28/249458.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/200.../03/251930.aspx

I dont wanna compare the corp I am @ with MS bu we still are in a need to automate testing scenarios and other crucial information before proceeding.

MSI modules are partly devloped using conflict handling databases (WISE) but that is not enough as we cannot reproduce / add functionality tests into this feature.

My question:

Has anyone ever seen a system / application that handles these kinds of things / scenarios when having a large platform to manage??????

Platform to support for the specific usage of my question is:

Windows 2003 & Windows XP

Please, point me in any direction as money is of no concern (not my money)!