Software Deployment

I've been trying to get a successful GPO out for Adobe CS3. I've created the GPO which runs a script (the commonly suggested script) to test for the existence of one of the installed apps... I haven't gotten this one quite right as of yet but my real question is what other modes are available for the setup.exe? The only one I've been able to find is "Silent". While this is all fine for most reasons, we don't want our users to sit there with the Windows "Running scripts" message and nothing else. We would like it to display something to identify what package is being installed or even a progress bar (if at all possible) while restraining user interaction of course. So far I've had no help whatsoever from Adobe (imagine that)... I'm beginning to think we need to request a new rep. :)

Or if anyone knows of a better method of deployment that would be helpful. We do not have SMS (yet)... all of our previous deployments have been GPOs of repackaged apps.

Any ideas?