Way to dupilicate data stored in Active Directory Profiles?

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Please bear with me in my lack of terminology :)

We are using shared profiles for our users in our Windows 2000 Active
Directory
and these profiles are shared out to our 8 Terminial Servers
that we are running.
Every time a user logs into Terminal server, their profile
is grabbed off a different server on the network and used
as they log in to each Terminal Server throughout the day.

Is there a way to create a 'master' profile that we could
share between ALL users - so that we do not have to
configure each user's profile to contain information like
'mapped network drives' or 'network printers' or
'desktop settings' etc... etc....

I hope this is clear and that there is a way to do this.
If you need me to be more clear on something, please let
me know....

Any help is appreciated.
Thank you.
Dave Grams
 
About the terminology: what you call a "shared" profile is called a
"roaming" profile. The profile is unique to each individual user,
and it roams with the user from server to server.

What you want is really to share a common profile between all
users. That is possible, but only if you make it read-only.If
multiple users would be allowed to write changes to a single shared
profile, it would very soon become corrupt.

Such a read-only profile, in which the users can't save changes
(can't save Favorites, Recent documents, etc) is called a
"mandatory" profile.
Here's how to create it:

HOW TO: Assign a Mandatory User Profile in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=323368
 
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