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The LiveCD List has several bootable CDs which include cpuburn. Check out Stresslinux and Overclockix. If they don't meet your needs you could modify them.

Instead of a series of posts claiming "they missed ..." one by one, why not list them all in one go.

EduKnoppix
Gnoppix
NordisKnoppix
KnoppMyth
Augustux
Condorux
BitDefender
FeatherLinux
Flonix
Overckockix
Knoppix STD
Sulix

In the Overclocking community, we use Overclockix, a distro specified for testing new overclocks and also using distributed computing apps without a hard drive.

Have you looked at Partition Image? The NTFS support is still 'experimental', but it can load images over a network from a server. I don't know if it can boot them or not, but it's open-source, so I'm sure you can get some kind of help from the developers toward adding that sort of capability yourself. Then, you'd just need to make a set of bootable CDs that run the partimage client and automatically rewrite the hard drive with the correct image. Shoot -- if you put 2GB of RAM in them, would it be possible to go diskless and load everything onto a RAM Drive? That way, the PC rewipes itself every reboot and you might even get a kick in performance if the disk accesses don't clog the memory bus too badly.

Now, this probably doesn't help because you are looking for a Windows setup, but if you needed Linux, what about rolling your own customized version of Knoppix?

IIRC, the latest versions support network booting from hosted images, and several others have taken Knoppix and tweaked it with various different hardware support and software changes (Overclockix, for example, adds stuff like support for NVidia's NForce2 chipset using NVidia's Linux drivers, which Knoppix won't include because of the licensing terms.)

...though, on second thought. I suppose if you were willing to go through all that trouble, you might just be willing to host the /usr tree read-only from your server -- that would do about the same thing.

overclockix has support for nforce2

p3

There is OverClockix which is sorta a overclocker's fork of Knoppix. It has several distributed computing clients (Folding, SETI, etc) and also CPU-burnin programs. And all the general purpose apps.