Deploying Firefox 7 with default user preferences?

I am having a hard time locating documentation for deploying Firefox with default user preferences (such as disabling automatic updates, setting a homepage, etc.). I located information for previous versions which mention of adding a user.js file to the defaults/pref folder. But this doesn't seem to work.
What is the proper way (if one exists) to customize Firefox for deployment in an enterprise scenario?

And people wonder why FireFox hasn't made much of a dent in the enterprise. This says it all......

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