Flash Player won't read mms.cfg

I am in the process of deploying Flash 10.3 out via group policys. I seem to have trouble disabling autoupdate. I am trying to put the file in "C:\Windows\SysWOW64" and it's called "mms.cfg" and encoded in UTF-8 via notepad (And I tried ASCII too!). No matter what I do, the option for auto-updating is always enabled in the control panel settings for Flash. I am using the text "AutoUpdateDisable=1" in the file.
As directed to in the adobe documentation of mms.cfg on how to verify that it's reading the file, I have also turned on autoupdating and set the frequency to 0 to enable it to check every time flash launches for an update. I have looked at the network traffic with Wireshark and I do not see Flash looking to update as it should in this situation.
The opearating system is Windows 7 Enterprise x64 w/ SP1. It does this with version 10.2 r159 as well as 10.3.181.14. The browsers are Firefox 4.01 as well as Internet Explorer 9. The exact file I am using is this http://dl.dropbox.com/u/912267/mms.cfg

I have seen several postings like this one in the Forums, and I am having this problem too. Reporting it as a bug sounds great, but if you want something that works now....
Here is a workaround I came up with for Windows 7 by reverse engineering Flash configuration:
On a test machine with default, or your preferred settings applied, go to Window Control Panel, and double click the Flash Player applet, which brings up: "Flash Player Settings Manager""
Click on the "Advanced" tab
Check: "Never check for updates (not recommended)"
Close "Flash Player Settings Manager"
This action will modify the file:
C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\Macromedia\Flash Player\macromedia.com\support\flashplayer\sys\settings.sol
Now, you can copy this file from the test machine to other machines / User profiles to "clone" the "Never check for updates (not recommended)" setting.
PS
I dont know if this applies to Windows XP. My guess is the mms.cfg works fine there.
-Mitch
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