Firefox Settings for users in a Windows Server 2008/Win 7 Environment

I am currently building images of Windows 7 with Firefox 4 for use on our machines. We use Windows Server 2008 to apply user settings. I am looking for a way that I can provide bookmarks, change some of the default settings, and remove the start-up splash screens for Firefox. It turns out that each time a unique user logs into a computer, they have to walk through these splash screens, and the settings revert back to defaults, and the bookmarks are gone. We have several thousand users on our network, so any help fixing this issue would be appreciated.

Generally it is the browser service that populates network neighborhood. This technology is no longer used with newer OS like server 2008, windows 7/8.
Description of the Microsoft Computer Browser Service
Regards, Dave Patrick ....
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