Desktop Shortcuts for Non-MSI / Non-GPO Based Installers

Hi Everybody,

I'm not sure if this is the best forum to post in, but it will probably get
the best exposure because it's about a couple of server technologies.

I was using a Small Business Server 2003 installation the other day and
noticed that there is an ability to put shortucts to 'setup.exe' and other
goodies on the desktops deployed with SBS but which aren't MSI based (i.e.
Assigned GPO installs)

I have Server 2003 Standard Edition and I'd like to know whether I can do
the same thing with (how I presume the SBS does it) through some sort of GPO.
What seems to be the case is that when you have installed the software
through the shortcut from the SBS machine, the icon disappears and doesn't
show on reboot. I know that I could make a GPO which deploys the shortcut
with the basic 'copy' function of the shortcut from the server to the
desktop, but it would mean about 5 different new icons on the desktops of my
users on every reboot and gpupdate.

I know that I could use the add/remove programs function with a zap file
with options, but the users that I have aren't happy with going to Add/Remove
programs when the machines are reinstalled every so often, and I'd like to
know whether this SBS function is a kind of 'special feature' that is taken
from SMS or whether I can do it on my Server.

I've already looked at making a zap shortcut which runs a bat file, which
copies the shortcuts from the one install, but alas it still involves the
users in opening the zap installer.