Lion won't hold preferences after NetRestore

Hi,
Quick qustion that hopefully someonwe here will be able to guide me to an answer with. I'm setup a master image in Lion on a MacBook Pro and sucessfully created the image and hosted it up on as a NetRestore. In this image I made a local account that I call "Local Adminisrator" with the short name "ladmin" and I use this account to install all my applications under and also set user settings like finder views, dock icons, turn off resume, turn off backwards scrolling and all those things. Typically in Snow Leopard after I have done this, these settings took affect under other users.
You may be thinking, why not just set user prefrerences under Workgroup Manager and the reason I havn't done this is my server runs Snow Leopard Server and its scheduled for upgrade for the mountain lion release. So far how I've hosted the NetResore images is in a Virtual Machine running on an iMac I have lying around.
So my question is: is there any I can create all user settings under lion in my one administrator account and then have these settings be applied for all the users? It seems like Lion just goes back to the defaults whenever a new user logs in from either active directroy or open directory,
Thanks!
-Mike Preble

Hi Rkovelman,
Just wanted to start out by saying that I really appreatiate your help. As for the AD/OD part. I have my server bound to active directory user authenthication and then also OD for computer managment. I'm using whats known as the golden/magic triangle setup.
So onto what I am trying to do--I want to set preferences that will apply to all users. Such preferences include: when a user opens a new finder windows, it shows their home directory instead of "all my files." I also want to enable sorting by name and be able to set the dock a certain way and have that apply to all users that log in. In the past on snow leopard I would create a local administrator on the machine, set all these settings on that local administrator account and then those settings would then apply to all users that loged in.
Any idea how I could do this on Lion?
Thanks!
-Mike

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