HEY, I remember this. I've had problems very similar to yours.
Lryder, does the dagent client show "connection closed, session terminated" if you ask it for its status?
If so, you are
not alone. It's to do with sysprep trying to run, but not being able to, leaving your computer in a crappy half-sysprep'd state. You can try changing your registry keys for "IMAGE_STATE_COMPLETE" and see if you are out of Rearms, by running in CMD "slmgr /dlv"
Unfortunately, Altiris' default sysprep answer file generalizes your system and rearms Windows Activation, which can only be done 3 times. Towards the bottom of
this thread I sort out changing the registry for skip-rearm.
Try changing those two keys, and see if Altiris will issue a job now.