Deploy HPDM sequence with factory image. HP software doesn't install/write filter in invalid state

[bkingstonmnc]

I'm trying to create an HPDM sequence that installs the factory image first, and then deploys customization scripts so that it will be easy to deploy future updates in the future (just swap out the Image in the first step)

However, everytime I deploy this to a machine, most of the hp software isn't installed and the write filter isn't licensed. Are the post deploy image scripts interrupted when there are remaining tasks assigned to an agent? Hopefully there's a registry key I can monitor to detect when the image is fully completed. the standard sysprep state key doesn't seem to indicate the state of the post deploy scripts.

I'm falling back to capturing an image of a system I deployed the factory image to and using that as the initial deployment step, however I would like to learn more about how the HPDM image works.