SBS2003 Firewall Group Policy

I have a small client who ought to be on a peer to peer network; however,
they purchased a software package that required a server; the one they bought
came with SBS2003. All service packs, patches, etc. are up to date.

Each workstation is XP Pro with SP2. They have a giant Ricoh copier,
printer scanner that does not work with windows firewall. I do not consider
this a problem, I have installed two (2) firewalls by different manufacturers
for firewall protection. I want to disable the windows firewall; however,
when I go to do so, There is an error message about Group Policy having
disabled the abilty to turn off the firewall.

I read article 872769, but it doesn't really tell me what I want to know: I
want to disable or destroy all windows firewalls on the network. I have
adequate hardware protection and their network scanner will not work with it.
Therefore I want it gone.

Can someone help me here?

Thanks,
Chris Chamberlin
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