Changing the default /Users location

Hey guys,
does anyone know a smart way to change the DEFAULT location of /Users in SL?
I wan't to create a system image with /Users on a second partition,
and i'm not talking about just ctrl-clicking an existing user and editing
the account prefs
Worked fine in 10.4 with NetInfo and in 10.5 with fstab/vifs.
10.6 anyway always creates an alias to /Users,
which i don't want because it makes our software-distribution go nuts.
Any ideas?
Would appreciate it...

I edited /etc/fstab using vifs and added:
/dev/disk0s3 /users hfs rw 1 2
This is exactly what i did in 10.5 as well.
SL mounts /users to the other partition just fine,
but additionally it creates a link to /users on the system partition as well.
I.e., on the system partition i have Applications, Library, System and so on
AND a link to /user. That didn't happen in 10.5
On the second partition i have all the users folder, just how i wanted it.
I'm just curious why SL automatically creates that link
when i change the mountpoint of /users.

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