You bring this up with the IT staff and must be willing to accept what they say. I believe it's against forum policy for anyone to offer ways to circumvent that which has been set up by other owners than yourself. It might be possible to use a USB stick to copy profiles for some applications and restore them later but that may be more hassle than it's worth. That's something that would only stick if you had a unique account on a particular PC. If it's a generic account, you'll need to remember that your settings will also apply to the next person who uses the PC and those settings might not be to their liking. I'd suggest you not waste time with this...though it's not what you'll appreciate hearing.
Hi,
At my university, the lab computes are set up to revert to a "default" every time they are shut down (usually 2-3 times a week). This means that every time I use any computer in the lab, all the settings and changes I've made revert to the lame ones that some university IT guy thought were a good idea. Essentaly everything saved on the local C: drive gets erased. Network drives act normally.
-Is there some way for me to save my changes and load my settings when I log on to another computer? I'm talking stuff from taskbar and start menu properties to desktop layout, to graphic settings.
-Is there a way I can save the settings I make within programs like Photoshop or internet browsers?
-What about keeping installed programs? For example, the "default" installed java isn't the current version, so it has to be updated after every restart.
Thanks for any tips.

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