Deploy Firefox with prebuilt bookmarks and homepage

We're deploying Firefox during the SCCM2012 imaging process on our company's win7 and 8 64bit machines. Unfortunately, the nature of Firefox's randomized user profile names and non-use of a "Default User" makes it impossible for us to build/deploy a tailored Firefox with our desired homepage and bookmarks. I understand older versions (3.x) of Firefox could make use of a default folder in it's program directory (C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\defaults) for bookmark deployment, upon which, every new Firefox profile created would use it's bookmark.html or js file to build predetermined bookmarks for that user. But this doesn't seem to be the case with the newer version of FF. I could see us building the environment in IE perhaps, and then instructing our users to use the import IE favorites, etc upon their first launch of Firefox? Kinda lame, if even possible. And yes, we could probably deploy a post-deployment package to overwrite (or merge as i've seen an article address) a user's Firefox profile, but that's really undesirable for numerous reasons. Is there no way to do this?
THANKS.

hello jackalfb, hopefully the following blog entry can provide some assistance: http://mike.kaply.com/2012/03/30/customizing-firefox-default-profiles/

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