Jeff,
I don't think it really matters...in that it won't make much difference to
a hacker. We've been through the same thing in recent years and renaimed
our entire domain.
We used to use the following convention aabbccc### (a=company division,
b=country code, c=location) and that was the same
There are vast amounts of info out there - it depends upon what you want to
do and what your enviornment/infrastructure setup is.
A good starting point is: http://www.microsoft.com/uk/windows/
from here you can go to the links, but I've listed them below
Windows 2000