HELP! Creating symbolic link to home folder for installer DMG

Guys,
I'm in a bit of a bind. I need to create a symbolic link for an installer DMG to distribute a communal Bookmarks.plist to all the computers in my department. Unfortunately 'ln -s ~/Library/Safari /Volumes/Bookmarks/.' doesn't do the trick! While it creates an alias that functions on my machine, when that DMG is compiled and distributed from the original sparse image, the alias fails to link to that location on whoever attempts to mount the DMG. Any ideas?? Thanks!

Symbolic links break when you change the machine on which they were created. Use an standard Mac alias instead as I believe they will work as expected.

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