Invisible Admin account

How can I create a local admin account with all administrator privildges that
cannot be seen or viewed by others. The reason for this is that our company
insists on issuing all users of all computers admin priviledges so that they
can install applications as needed, however many of these users like to
change the administrator password on the local machines when they get their
machines or just before they turn them into us when they are leaving the
company, making it impossible for us to get into the machine and pull data
off of it.

We run a Novell network, however we use a standard W2K Professional operating
system as our client platform. It would be nice if we could create local
Adminstrator account that another user with administrator access could not
change the password for, or make this account invisible to all other users.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated and welcomed.
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