Copy User Profiles

I'm working on imacs at a lab and I want to know how to apply system preferences from the local machine to all users on that machine. Specifically, I'm looking to keep sound preferences.
The problem that I'm running is this: I can configure a non admin account with all the applications that I want in the dock, audio i/o set up properly, and parental controls set, but when I log into another non administrator account none of those preferences are the same. I've also tried setting up the administrator account before logging into a non admin account with the same results.
This wouldn't be a huge deal if I were only working on one or two machines, but this lab has 25 machines with up to 5 users per station. I''ve looked online and found some info about fixing with mac osx server, but I am without that application here at this lab.
What about copying and pasting user accounts. If I got an account set the way that I want it would it be possible to duplicate and rename it?
I'll get back to the forums.
Any ideas?
-Nate

Then you are going to have to go to each machine and set the settings from the Administrator account and set it so Standard users can change them.

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