Shawn, Comjf,

Love it when I get a chance to give back! I had been looking for the same thing, forever! Now, I believe I may have found something that might be of service. BgInfo - from SysInternals is a cool little tool that automatically displays relevant information about a Windows computer on the desktop's background, such as the computer name, IP address, service pack version, and more. You can edit any field as well as the font and background colors, and can place it in your startup folder so that it runs every boot, or even configure it to display as the background for the logon screen.

Because BGInfo simply writes a new desktop bitmap and exits you don't have to worry about it consuming system resources or interfering with other applications.

BgInfo works on 95 and higher, and Windows NT 4.0 and higher. There is no device driver component to BGInfo, so you can run it like any Win32 program.
You can also use the Windows Scheduler to run BGInfo on a regular basis to ensure long-running systems are kept up to date.

If you create a BGInfo configuration file (using the File|Save Settings menu item) you can automatically import and use those settings on other systems by adding the /I or /iq command line option.

You can download BgInfo FREE here.

If this does not offer everything you need, I have an archaic tool that you guys are welcome to script out. Let me know.