It just doesn't make sense to me how you could walk for 5 loving minutes until you find trees.
It's happened to me except it was grass and not snow.
But you seem to have a lot of stupid comments on this topic. I'll just start ignoring them.
Notch should add a edit to the server program to let us use Seeds to make specific land for our server.
You can.
Step 1: Start a single player game with the desired seed.
Step 2: Do nothing to new world, save and quit.
Step 3: Move the world files onto the server.