Cloning a Win2K Machine – how to autoass

I ghosted 5 identical PCs. How to give each a PC name automatically upon first time boot?
I have already created names for them in the Active Directory (AD). How can the PC get its assigned name from the AD. (At this time PC is still not member of the Domain.) Are there Sysprep or ADSI programming techniques to extract the info and pass it to variable to feed the newborn Win2K PC its name?
This technique can be used to roll out thousands of Win2K at once. Thanks.