I'm only offering this info for you to look into until the experts reply.  They are pretty busy.   

Oops!  Wait, I think I might have misunderstood you.  I gave info about using the driverpacks.  I'm not sure if you are talking about using driverpacks or just assembling the drivers for your PC.  If that is what you mean then http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/33/ might help.  Especially the Drivers From CD section found at http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/35/ .

I hope that helps.

Ed

I'm trying to use sysprep to run the mini-wizard after reboot. The PC's I will be doing this on are already formated. I'm just not sure how sysprep works.

I already have a program for automated software installation at OS level but got stuck when it come to drivers. I can code stuff to import registry files and copy data if neccesary, but I just don't know whats required.

as a guess I would say that on my CD i should copy the drivers to windows\drivers dir and import a reg file to the devicepath location and then reboot PC. I also presume that once the PC reboots it will automatically install the drivers that are stored within the folder I have declared in devicepath reg file. Is this correct?

any help would be appreciated. Thanks