I am not sure if I understand correctly what you are trying to accomplish, but I think you are saying that you want all the shorcuts to appear on the desktop each time a new user logs in. What I have done is, created a profile and set it up just the way I want. I then move it to the default user profile (I make a backup of the default profile first in case I ever want to go back to the original setup). Under the system properties, there is a User profile tab (W2K). You can use that to copy your profile to the default user.
However, if you have a bunch of workstations, this would be a slow process and it sounds like there is a better way using active diriectory. I use this process mainly for my Citrix servers. I would probably pursue the active directory answer for the long run.
You can also use a login script to copy shortcut files to the local desktop as well.