Yes, having windows update running freely on workstations is not advisable. (Got a first-hand taste of how it craps on one of my servers -- a domain controller to boot -- which barfed errors after installing a service pack from the net.) What I do in my network is have *dedicated* machines (one for each OS: XP, 2000, 98SE) download all patches from Windows Update in a given schedule, then have those patches made available through the LAN in shared directories.
This also makes more sense, especially if you've limited bandwidth. The newer version of WindowsUpdate also has Windows Catalog, which allows your computer to download specific updates for particular OS versions.
What would be much nicer is something that can "push" updates to the individual workstations aside from just having the workstations grab the updates.
As for the original topic on overwhelming requests, wouldn't it be possible to throttle these PCs using delay pools? However, it will their overall proxy service...
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