Deploying Normal.dotm through OCT doesn't work in Office 2013

I am trying to install a custom normal.dotm Word Template file with the initial install of Office 2013.
I am using the Office Customization Tool to create an automated install of Office 2013 in the exact same way I did in Office 2010.I am utilizing the Additional Content>Add Files & Additional Content>Remove Files sections to include a custom normal.dotm
file and place it in the [AppDataFolder]\Microsoft\Templates directory. (The remove files section runs first and removes the same file name before it installs the file I want.)
This works perfectly fine in Office 2010. After I complete the setup process using the customized Office 2013 files however, I get an error message in Microsoft Word that says "Sorry, we had trouble getting the featured templates and can't show them
right now." Also, when I look in the path on the Windows 8 machine this is being tested on, there actually is no Normal.dotm file at first launch but depending on how many times I launch Word it shows up in a few launches or there is a NormalPre.dotm
file in the directory instead. Even when the file shows up I get the same error message in
Why is this not working? How can I accomplish rolling out a custom Normal.dotm file with the install of Office 2013 using OCT?

This is what i did to get it working as i wanted it.
I stripped out configuring the Language in the OCT tool
I added my customised normal.dotm with my customisations in OCT
I added the "MigrateNormalOnFirstBoot" registry key in OCT
I currently am creating an Office 2013 script using vbscript (.vbs file) for the purpose of installing either MSOffice 2013 x86 or x64 versions - i then added the creation of the following registry entry via the vbscript after the msoffice setup command
line part.
- HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\LanguageResources
- i created a DWORD key here called "InstallLanguage" with the value of the language i want Word to default to. In my case it was a value of "2057" for English UK.
With this combination i have a one click MSOffice 2013 script that installs MSOffice 2013 on either a 32bit or 64bit system.
I'm pretty sure you could leverage off a function in OCT to achieve the same as i have. Just a note - i did try to add the registry key first in OCT's "Add Registry entries" however this didn't work as it didn't create the registry keys before first
launching Word. Maybe you could also consider in OCT under SETUP \ Add Installations and Run Programs to run a .bat or reg to .exe file to achieve the same result.

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