need to kill sysprep? on automation, want desktop

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I have an almost completely automated cd - install for xp pro made from a corporate license cd (so there is no activation involved here). The problem is though I want my xp install to log completely into windows as the adminstrator 1 time like I've been able to do for win 2000 pro. Everything goes good but then I hit a wall as soon as gui setup ends , reboot, and instead of logging in to the desktop to say "it is done, here ya go" I end up with STILL a welcome to xp setup asking me to decide how the pc will connect to the net, ask for my opt in/out of registration, and to set up user names. I don't want it to ask any of that! My assumption is that what I'm after to suppress is sysprep? There were references on the web what I was looking for is to add to unattend section ...DisableDynamicUpdates=Yes... but this seems to be for upgrades or is it? It just seems either I have placed the sysprep.inf file in the wrong spot or am missing another line that suppresses all those last-minute questions. Although it's claimed not to work I can get the cd to copy out a sysprep folder to the root of the hd. Can anyone tell me how to kill that screen? Automation's no good if you cannot score by hitting the desktop once as far as I'm concerned.
 
From deploy.chm on the Windows XP CDROM:

OEMSkipWelcome
Specifies whether unattended Setup skips the Welcome page in GUI-mode Setup
and Mini-Setup.

Syntax OEMSkipWelcome = 0 | 1
Values 0
Displays the Welcome page in GUI-mode Setup and Mini-Setup.

1
Skips the Welcome page in GUI-mode Setup and Mini-Setup.

Example OEMSkipWelcome = 1

Comments If OemPreinstall = Yes, unattended Setup automatically stops at
the Welcome page. To avoid this pause in your factory or testing
environment, set OEMSkipWelcome = 1. However, do not distribute any
computer with OEMSkipWelcome = 1.

If OemPreinstall in the [Unattended] section of Unattend.txt is Yes,
unattended Setup automatically stops at the Welcome page. To avoid this
pause in your factory or testing environment, set the value of
OEMSkipWelcome in the [GuiUnattended] section of Sysprep.inf to 1. However,
do not deliver any computer with OEMSkipWelcome = 1. Instead, change
OEMSkipWelcome to 0 in the Sysprep.inf file that you use before delivering
the computer to the customer.

Requires OEMPreinstall = Yes.


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I appreciate the help but the answer was what I thought and it was that I was missing a line in my unattend.txt file

[Unattended
UnattendSwitch=Ye

Also I could not find the answer because I didn't really know the name of what I was trying to suppress which is the "out of box experience" (oobe) portion. Just posting in case anyone else runs across the same thing.
 
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