A way around domain group policy?

Hello everyone. I will try to best explain my scenerio.

I am a local admin for several workstations (Windows XP SP2) in my office. I
do not have any domain access other than a regular domain user. I check the
MMC snapin of Domain users etc and noticed that there are 3 group policies
that are applied to my profile when I log in with my domain account. One of
them is called WUS. I assume this is the one that is causing me problems.

This policy sets up Windows update to use the companies' update server
instead of Microsoft's update server. That would be fine and dandy if it
wasn't for the fact that the server has been down since November.

So, I started messing around with Registry settings to try and get around
this issue. I have managed to have the computer contact the Microsoft update
server instead. I have it setup to download and install the updates
automaticly. It does download the updates that are needed but the system
does not auto apply these updates. I am thinking there might be something in
the registry or a policy applied that does not allow the system to auto
install the updates.

Now for the questions.

1. Is it even worth messing around with the registry settings and local
group policies? To my knowledge the domain policy should override any
settings I do localy. However, I have been changing things in the registry
and they do not get changed by the domain group policy.

2. When do domain group policies get applied? From what I understand when I
log into windows with my domain account the domain group policy gets applied
to my profile. However, if I keep the computer on all the time does the
domain policy automaticaly get reapplied or refreshed eventually?

I'll be registered to this post so if there is missing any information I
will get back to you asap.

Thanks in advance!
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