Help setting up permissions

I don't know where else to put this, so here goes.
Here's the situation... we have a lab of Macs that are going to be used with iMovie '09. Students will be logging in using network accounts but obviously the video can't be captured to their network home directories. Instead it will go to a local partition called "Storage."
I had to create the /Volumes/Storage/iMovie Events.localized and give the student's group write access to it, otherwise iMovie would return a permissions error when you try to capture video (it didn't have permission to create a new event folder.)
The problem now is that each student can see and use the other student's work. This can be fixed by adjusting the permissions on the student's event folder so the only the student (and the teacher group) have read access, but this has to be done after the fact.
I would like to know how to automate this? The standard UNIX method would be to adjust the umask to 027 (which I would like to do anyway) but I understand from Apple's KB articles that messing with umask is generally a no-no in OS X.
How would we do this with ACLs? Please keep in mind that we're talking about assigning ACLs on a local disc (even though we're a network environment with OS X Server etc.)
All of this jumping through hoops would not be needed if Apple would let us specify where we wanted to save files like in pre-'08 versions.... grumble

The third line of the script locks out all but the owner of the folder. Unless you login as the 'root' user or apply an ACL to the top level of the folder your teacher group won't have access to it. You might want to modify it:
#!/bin/bash
mkdir /Volumes/Storage/iMovie\ Events.localized/$1
chown -R $1:teacher /Volumes/Storage/iMovie\ Events.localized/$1
chmod 770 /Volumes/Storage/iMovie\ Events.localized/$1
Also, have you seen this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2088397&tstart=0
regarding the problem with folder redirection of iMovie '09 when using network home directories not working?

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