How can you configure Firefox to apply updates as soon as they are available?

I have a mandate to update Firefox across every machine in my enterprise within 48 hours of a new release. I have been doing this with intranet distribution tools (SCCM, etc.) but because of the frequency of Firefox updates this has become laborious.
I've been looking at the about:config settings in the "app.update" category (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Category:Preferences) and some of those seem promising. As a test, I set "app.update.silent" to TRUE and "app.update.interval" to 60 (seconds) on a legacy version of Firefox. I restarted the browser, let it sit for a few minutes then restarted it again expecting the latest update to apply, but nothing happened.
How can I script or automate via Firefox's internal settings the same update process that is triggered when users manually go to Help > About?

The Nightly versions have these values for some of the prefs because they can be updated daily more than once because of a respin
*app.update.interval : 7200
*app.update.promptWaitTime : 43200
You may need to reset update timer prefs.
*app.update.lastUpdateTime.background-update-timer
You can have a look at the comments in the source code that handles the updating process to see if that gives some ideas.
*http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/mozapps/update/nsUpdateService.js
*http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-release/source/toolkit/mozapps/update/nsIUpdateService.idl
*http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-release/source/toolkit/mozapps/update/nsUpdateService.js#1951

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