Clone bootable image from laptop to PC

I will soon have a new Toshiba Portege M200 tablet PC. Yippee! It
will not have any drives, internal or external, except it's hard drive
with WinXP Tablet OS. I now have Ghost 2002 software, a PC running
Win2K Pro, a cable modem, and will soon have a router.

What are my options for cloning a bootable image from laptop to PC and
back again? I want not only to preserve the initial clean system, but
to make regular bootable backups.

I did some reading about Ghost on the Symantec site, and the
documentation made my head ache ;-| Should I try to use Ghost 2002
over the network? Should I do the crossover cable thing instead?
Doesn't running Ghost on both machines mean running Windoze on both
meaning I can't make a bootable image because the OS of the source
disk is running? Should I buy other software or hardware?

Thanks for your help,
Teffy