Scott (and Howard),
In terms of practicality, a script would be good to facilitate the installation (once you get the OKs). However, my concern is if someone has an older workstation then DF running at it, even if we run it with default memory mode, is going to have a bigger impact in performance and guess who they are going to call to complain. Not going to be Howard.
However, assuming you have relatively decent systems in the labs, these (ideally) should be in their own groups and scripting those would be relatively simple.
Now, something to think about before we launch on the crusade... which are going we going to be running. The client or the screensaver? The client can be installed as a service so it runs in the background. However, the screensaver is much more visible, and only runs when the system is not being physically used by a person. It we want to go the SETI route with the cool screensaver, this would be the way. The only thing I would suggest is something on the screensaver that shows a link to the website (SETI it shows the URL, folding@home I believe if you click on a part of it that it takes you the website or at least info on the protein).
ANother two-pence of thoughts.
RuneStar