How to load/refresh default preference plists

Hi guys,
I am facing the following problem at the moment: we got a couple iMac clients in a computer pool bound to an AD, which as a default disables the secondary mouse button on the AD user's account on first login.
So I came up with the idea of running a script on startup which basically runs the terminal command
defaults write com.apple.driver.AppleHIDMouse Button2 -int 2
which works fine, but sadly it only takes effect after the next login. What it does is essentially manipulating the file com.apple.driver:AppleHIDMouse.plist in the user's Library/Preferences/ directory.
So I'm trying to figure out now how to reload this plist file to have it's changes take effect right away. Unfortunately the mechanics of these preference plists are not well documented.
Does anyone know how I can make the system reload defaults/preferences from this file?
Thanks in advance,
Jo

Hi!
try this code --
LOAD DATA
   INFILE 'sample.dat'
   REPLACE
   INTO TABLE emp
   empno   POSITION(01:04) INTEGER EXTERNAL NULLIF empno=BLANKS,
   ename   POSITION(06:15) CHAR,
   job         POSITION(17:25) CHAR,
   mgr       POSITION(27:30) INTEGER EXTERNAL NULLIF mgr=BLANKS,
   sal        POSITION(32:39) DECIMAL EXTERNAL NULLIF sal=BLANKS,
   comm   POSITION(41:48) DECIMAL EXTERNAL DEFAULTIF comm = 100,
   deptno POSITION(50:51) INTEGER EXTERNAL NULLIF deptno=BLANKS,
   hiredate POSITION(52:62) CONSTANT SYSDATE
)-hope this will solve ur purpose.
Regards.
Satyaki De.

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