Common desktops through GPO?

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I have new users joining all the time at a customer's place of
business (Telemarketing firm) and this place is a revolving door for
employment. I want to create a "common" desktop setup so each user
will get icons (preferable QuickLaunch) for things like MS Word,
Excel, PowerPoint and Access. In addition I need to DISABLE MS IE (no
time to surf here.)

How can I set this up so ANY user I create will have this set up on
ANY computer on the LAN? Am I correct in assuming this is a GPO issue?
Or is there some windows All Users desktop that can be automatically
copied to every new user?

-Fran-