There is Knoppix (www.knoppix.com), it is a Debian based live CD distribution. It is pretty much complete linux distro, including OpenOffice and Mozilla suite, Evolution, Gaim, Gimp, Scribus, and much more (even Apache, MySQL and Samba). It has great hardware support and recognition and support for permanent home folders either on hard disk or USB flash drive. It automatically detects home folders during booting.

I used Knoppix 3.4 once and liked it so much that I even installed it to my hard drive (there is an option for that, too) and overwritten my RedHat 8.0 installation :-) with it.

Knoppix is simply the best LiveCD GNU/Linux distribution out there.

Since I cooperate with the GNU Project, I'd prefer to say that Gnoppix is the best. But reality is, Knoppix is Knoppix! And I use it and recommend it to everyone whenever possible.

Thanks for the feedback. I am trying to put together a demonstration for my boss who is keeping as an all MS shop. I would like to be able to show here something and put something out on one of our lab machines for students to use and give us feedback on. Eventually we would roll probably Fedora using kickstart to aid repetitive installation on our 30 something machines.

Knoppix is brilliant. Considered installing it, too, earlier.
I suspect Knoppix is the distribution which has comverted the most Linux-users.
The SuSE LiveCD looks great, but it takes 3 times as long to boot it. Having only used Knoppix for a LiveCD, this came a bit of a shock.