Changing a Quicktime preference using ARD

I work in an elementary school and manage lots of machines. I need to change a Quicktime preference for my Student user. This user does not have rights to system preferences and it will be very time consuming to change this on each machine. I'm looking for a set of commands that would allow me to do this via ARD.
What I need it to do is to go into the Advanced tab of the Quicktime Preference and check the box that says Enable Flash.
Can anyone out there help?
Thanks in advance if you can!
Susan

Hi Tim,
>>However, if I remove the computer from the domain, the username reverts back to the previous one and the password seems to get corrupted and is neither the new one or the old one.
How is it going? I agree with Idan that we can also try to use the setting
Accounts: Rename administrator account to change the name of administrator to see if the issue persists.
Regarding the deprecation of password changing function of GPP, this is mainly due to security concern that GPP stores password in Sysvol which is accessible to all domain users.
If the issue persists or you need further help, please don't hesitate to let us know.
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