Changing Safari preference for user template

Hello All,
This is my first time on the Apple Forums so thank you in advance for looking at my post.  Now to the main point of why I'm here.  I'm currently trying to set the Safari Preference from "Top Sites" to "HomePage" on a bunch of iMacs running 10.8.5. with Safari 6.2.  I have set the homepage to the needed URL executing a JAMF command since we use their software to manage all of our Macs.  Although that command is great and worked well, Safari is set to open to "Top Sites" by default.  I know I can do this by executing this command:
defaults write com.apple.Safari NewWindowBehavior -int 0
Now this changes the value in my User/Library/Preferences/ folder yet I need this to be applied for ANY user and any EXISTING user on the computer.
The JAMF command made it easy by adding a -feu -fut options so I can change it for existing users as well as the user template.  How could I change this for the user template? Any help is appreciated.
Thank you

Ok, more info... almost everything is working fine, uMask aside. What isn't working is the sidebar in the Finder windows. The shortcuts in the sidebar are making absolute references instead of referencing the local user. E.g. "Documents" in "NewUser"'s account ispointing back to /Users/OriginalUser/Documents
This is probably a setting in the local user's Finder preferences, but wow... that's a pain to deal with.
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