CC startup script to set Preference "Default Composer"?

I have a startup script that I wrote for CS3 that controls about 20 preferences.
One of the preferences was for Composer, which was by: app.textDefaults.composer = "Adobe Single-line Composer"
This script has worked for CS 3, 5, 5.5, and 6 (we skipped 4)
We're moving to CC and my script still works, but I see a new preference at Preferences > Advanced Type for "Default Composer"
I get lost in ExtendScript's Object Model Viewer, so would someone be kind enough to tell me what to add to my startup script to set the Default Composer to Adobe Single-line Composer
Thanks for your time
Tom

It seems to be related to app.textDefaults, but it seems to me that it's broken...

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Good Morning.
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What I am trying to do, is make a Startup script that is specific to the COMPUTER being logged into so when any user logs into that computer, they get the printer in that office defined and set as default.
I am able to do this successfully with my script but ONLY if i have the script be on the USER side of GP (i.e. in the Logon script section)
That is great that that is working however, when my user goes to Office B, they still get mapped to Office A's printer if I use that method.
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I login with a brand new user called "testuser" (creative, huh?) and basically nothing happens
except they log in and have some Microsoft Document Image Writer printer set as default (which by the way sure does slow the PC down to the point of it almost being broke if anyone actually tries to print to that by accident)
No Main Teller Printer, no anything.
The strangest part about this is, if i apply this script to the user LOGON scripts, it works fine, the printer is there, and is set as default. (but see above why that wont work for my situation)
So obviously the script works fine, but I guess i'm missing something when it comes to applying GP's to Computers rather than Users.
Can anyone shed some light as to why the script is not running (i'm guessing the script isn't even attempting to run, rather than failing, but i have no way to know that)
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WRFCU
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EDIT #2: I manually navigated to the Script file after logging in and "opened" it and it added and set the default printer no problem. the issue is definately with the script running at startup.

I wanted to clarify a few things:
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http://www.intelliadmin.com/index.php/2007/08/set-default-printer-from-a-script
http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/ezine/ezine17.htm

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