My company is getting ready to roll all of our Win2k machines over into WinXP Pro. My recommendation has been to use the NIST checklists to harden the boxes and roll fresh installs, however, I am recieving the normal amount of flak about this and how much easier an upgrade would be to do.......

I want the systems to have fresh installs because of the job the OS does with cleaning the registry is not complete and have explained that the systems will be more stable than if an upgrade is done. Thier stance is simple 1-they do not want to do the work and 2- they do not want to have to reload the custom apps they have on thier desktops.......Anyone have additional bullets for my gun on this one?? I would like to hear from anyone who has suggestions on how I can strengthen my position.

Thanks