Group policies with winxp

Hi

How do you set winxp to pick up group policies from windows NT server, from the netlogon share. Can you use poledit with winxp, if not how do you get winxp to pick up policies. The reason I,m asking is I work in a school with NT4 server with win95/98 clients, these all work with no problem. We are ready to buy some new machines, and our supplier is only dealing with winxp pro. I need to set these machines up with policies which stop the pupils accessing parts of the system, which they can delete or corupt eg. locking desktop, hiding drives etc. Any help would be very apppreciated.

Thanks in advance

G Smith