Windows 7 Home connecting to server 2003 and 'NET USE'

[DougP]

The company bought 12ea Win 7 Home Premium laptops to save money. since you can't map a drive in that version they have, they figured out to run a script with:
NET USE [driveletter:] \\ComputerName\ShareName[\volume] [password | *] [/USER:[domainname\]username] .

So there is an icon on their desktops that they double clink to get to the shared folder we all use, every single time.
I was looking up NET USE and saw the additional /PERSISTENT:YES parameter. Would that make is so they don't have to run the script every time?
Anyway:
the icon works but sometimes when you open the mapped drive from 'Computer' it says there are no files???? why sometimes it works and other times it does not I don't know.

I figured out they could type \\ServerName in the 'Run' command box and get to the server then double click the Shared folder and see the same place that the map drives see's. and the files always show without fail when it's done that way.

So is there anyway to make another script or anything??? I can put in an icon on the desktop that will essentially do the \\serverName like it is done from the run command?
and even \\serverName\sharename to be exactly where they want to go.

TIA

DougP