Have you considered a more robust app deployment tool like SMS? SMS 2003 has BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service) which allows the application to "trickle down" to the client on slow links. It is designed specifically for the "laptop warrior."...
Install Windows as usual. If you have DNS running already, make sure it works. If you don't have DNS, don't worry. Run DCPROMO from Start/Run or the command line. It is wizard driven to create an AD forest for you, and it can automatically install/configure DNS as well.
MOM does not modify the schema, though during the install process you do need to create a few user accounts and assign user rights to some of them, but no schema changes.
As for testing MOM, it is always a good idea to test any new software in the lab to ensure there are no incompatibilities...
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