Changing parental controls on multiple agents

Anyone know how to change the parental controls using ARD? I want to copy a set of permissions and send it out to all of the macs in my lab.

I believe the file you are looking for, for the most part, is com.apple.applicationaccess.plist. The problem is that, apparently, not all of the restrictions (safari being an example) are found in this file.

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