unattend.xml not running on a custom syspreped image??

Ive been looking at deploying Win 7 Pro with WDS...

I can deploy the standard win7pro image.win with a unattend.xml (located on the WDS server)
Everything works perfectly, all OOBE settings are suppressed and PC joins domain, activates, sets local admin pass etc etc......

So.. next step, reinstall with a fresh image, install office 2007, all apps etc. Then sysprep it and then capture to customimage.wim

Now when I deploy this new customimage.wim it doesnt seem to apply the answerfile (win7.xml) any more after install?
After the install i have to run through all the OOBE settings, select the lauguage, setup a local user etc etc...


Does anyone please know if theres a step im missing to get my customimage.wim to auto-join domain etc just as the standard image.wim does?


I HAVE remebered to select "Allow image to install in Unattended mode" in WDS and choosen same xml file (win7.xml) as with the stardard image.wim

Thanks for Looking

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I take it you are using the Windows AIK? If so what happens when you run a validate test against the XML file? Any errors being flagged?

Paul

Thanks for the reply mate,

No errors.

I have followed a different guide using this step when creating the image:

Step #13
Once you have everything configured correctly, Copy or move your sysprep.xml file to : C:\windows\system32\sysprep. Now to run sysprep, navigate to that sysprep folder, hold SHIFT and right click and select “Open New Command Windows Here”. Next, input the following commands:

sysprep /generalize /oobe /shutdown /unattend:sysprep.xml

This seems to work, but surely just the xml that i tell WDS to use should be enough?

Bit confused.