>>Talk to your LAN Administrator about having him grab the IEAK (Internet Explorer Administration Kit), which will allow you to easily customize installs of IE4 or 5 for automatic distribution within your organization. It doesn't cost anything (there's some requirement to let MS know how many customized IE systems you've deployed) and it gives your organization a great deal of latitude in pre-customizing or extending IE.
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>Shall do - but I'm wondering if they already have this IEAK (since they have a server IE setup already in place) and deliberately "customized out" the Active Desktop feature?

It's possible; they may be using a simple .INF file to drive the install, too, in which case, you can have a separate one created that will install AD