Default user profile and different Macs

I made a 10.6.5 image with a custom user profile. This works perfect. The only annoying is that when I install the image on a other mac certain things are turned on. For example: in the image the time machine icon/blutooth icon in the menubar are removed and turned off. Software update is turned off. If you installed the image on an other mac(different Apple hardware?) these things are on (Apple software update is on) Time machine and blutooth are visable in the menubar.(but not active)
anyone an idea?
thanks

Given that Mac OS has standard settings for users on a standard OS X build, it is surely possible. I remember I was looking into this awhile back, I lost the resource though. Since I will be doing this soon myself I will report back.
I know the standard profile is here: /System/Library/User Template/English.lproj/
Presumably you would create a testuser profile, set it up the way you want it. Copy the testuser profile to /System/Library. Rename the User Template folder to User Template.old, then rename the testuser user profile to User Template.
Permissions look to be:
System - Read & Write
Everyone - No Access
So you would have to apply these to the new User Template folder.
That is throughout the directory as well. There is another folder inside the User Template folder called, user.template. It looks to be the same. I am not sure of the distinction.
Hope that helps a bit. Just play around a bit. Just be sure to keep the originals around, hence the .old. The instructions I gave are what we use for setting up an XP standard image, I can't imagine it being much different. Like I said, I will be doing this soon myself. So I will report back.
This would effectively give the users the same profile upon login. Depending on what you are using to manage network users you could restrict the user from changing any settings or only certain ones. I know you can do this with Workgroup Manager in OS X Server.
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