replication and log shipping

[Eric]

Hi, Ive a few questions and would be grateful for any
assistance/comments from experience as Ive not that much dba
experience , we have 3 servers all containing sql 2000 standard
edition, two (prod and standby) located in the U.S. and Im hoping to
set up the third as a reporting server locally in Europe...presumably
having the data close as possible and as current as possible for
reporting?...We dont have the resources to implement clustering so
presumably I envisage keeping the standy server using either Log
shipping or replication (i think log shipping being the best approach
here?). My question is whats the best approach for getting the data
across the network from the U.S to Europe (differing domains but
internal network).. Is transactional replication albeit push or pull
the best approach to get the data across, ie. with log shipping it
seems that you will have to copy across the bckups nightly using xcopy
/ftp transaction log backups scheduled, does transactional replication
just propogate the changes and not the entire backup daily. if its
just the changes does it note just the changes made to the standby
server every day and just replicate these across? (i.e. a backup
restore is done daily with log shipping to the standby server..With
transactional replication will it note that some of this data has been
replicated already..) Any help greatly appreciated..
Eric