File association question

Hello All,
I'm trying to setup VLC media viewer on all of our Mac's here. I have a configuration file that has all of the info for each streaming video channel that we offer. If I do a "Open With" I can associate this file with the VLC viewer, then double click on the file and it launches the viewer just fine.
Here is the problem, I'm using ARD to push the two files out to all of the client machines. When I do this the "Open With" link that I setup is broken. Then on each machine I have to go and manually reestablish the link.
Is there a preference that I can copy that will carry this link? Or a command I can issue from ARD to the client, something like the defaults command?
Thanks for any help.
John

Sorry it took so long to get back to you.
I tried it this morning, copying the LaunchServices plist along with the other files. That didn't work, same thing.
So I started poking around in the VLC app and was able to do as "Save Playlist As" and copy that file over with the app and it worked just fine.
In theory, should the LaunchServices file have held that info in it? I would still like to know. When I did a "Open With" and went to the apps folder, the VLC viewer was not a option until I changed the drop down to All Applications. Then I would get a error warning in the window stating that this app may not recognize this file type, but it worked. Could this have been my problem? Just wondering now.....

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