Need: Add agent to specified collections at install

I administer Altiris in a large environment where there are several different IT groups providing support for their respective areas. While there is unfortunately no real central governing body, my department is the 'big kid' on the block; owning the datacenters and the network. Most of the other IT groups 'subscribe' to various services that we provide to take advantage of our large infrastructure. Recently, there has been a high demand from many of these groups to use our Altiris product suites. While one group is interested in patch management and custom inventory, another just wants to be able to use carbon copy on their clients, etc, etc. Our department then would need to create a collection for each group, grant their IT staff appropriate access to it, and bill them back for the licensing and administrative costs of the solutions they choose to use. This should be easy enough to do with a few different agent policies, and security roles, but unfortunately, there is no way for us to automatically update collections for these groups based on IP address or machine name. We are talking about thousands of machines, so manually maintaining these collections would be a nightmare.

So then, I am on a quest to find a utility that would allow us to add agents to specified collections at install time. I am imagining this taking the form of a command line executable that takes collection names (or collection guids) as arguments. I suppose a web based utility could also do the job however, we need to be able to 'give' parameterized versions of this utility to other support groups to use as an agent installer which would ensure every machine they ran it on would be added to their group's collection. Some of these groups would be using remote methods of deployment such as the DS console, so a web based utility might prove to be unwieldy.

One juice member - Screenbert, has made somewhat similar utility (http://www.symantec.com/connect/download/1557/auto...) for which he was awarded a hefty bounty. I wonder, would the great juicemaster offer a bounty for a tool such as this?...