CFAY: Have you looked into integrating a free phone tracking program such as:
http://smartphonetracker.blogspot.com When/If you have a kitchen available, I think I would like to get it and see if I can integrate that in there, default it to "on", with a default pin/password so that if a thief hard-resets the device, the program will still be set to run and report its where-abouts.
My wife is a teacher and one of the students stole her phone once. Luckily someone saw the girl with the phone and knew it wasn't hers and reported it. We got the phone back thankfully. In the future I'd like to be able to ensure that the phone can report its location and anything short of flashing the device wouldn't be able to stop it.