Those multiple reboots are part of the sysprep process. The whole SID regeneration is an open topic if it's required, I think the last time I looked it wasn't really necessary to security. So you could use the VIX/GuestOps API hooks to just re-ip the box without doing a full customization in your example (you would have the box run a simple WMI script or batch file to change the computername and ip address, then join domain if necessary).
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