Equivalent of sessionetc to "automatically" start applications on login ...

JDS fans and experts:
I'm in the process of getting our user community to move from CDE to JDS on our Solaris 10 machines.
Because we have an environment where anyone logging into our machine is likely to want to run a particular application, we "automatically" start it for them in CDE by putting the command uses to start this application in the file named:
/etc/skel/.dt/sessions/sessionetc
When we create a new user, then all of the /etc/skel stuff gets copied into their home directory ... and, as a result, they all have a file named ~/.dt/sessions/sessionetc that starts the desired application for them each time they login.
Is there an equivalent way to do this using JDS? Note: if it matters, we are using the latest JDS3 on Solaris 10u4 on an x86_64 platform.
Thanks for your help,
John

JDS community:
Well, I think that I'm close to being able to answer my own question as to how to set up an application to start automatically.
As root, I've opened the file browser and pointed it to:
preferences-all-users:///
Then I double-clicked the Desktop Preferences icon followed by double-clicking the Sessions icon.
That opens up a window with 3 tabs .... one being named: "Startup programs". That allows me to add additional programs to be started and assign it an order.
Great! I added the program that I wanted ... and it starts automatically
when I login again as root.
Unfortunately, however, despite having done this in the preferences-all-users:/// section, it seems to only start the application
when I login as root .... but doesn't seem to start it when I login as a normal user.
Is there something that I need to restart in order for this to take effect for all users? Or do I have something else messed up that would prevent something that seemed to be added a a startup application for all users from starting for anyone but root?
Thanks for any additional insights,
John

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