Problems customizing the user template

Hi,
I'm trying to customize the user template on 2 laptops. I've done this before with no problems, but this time it doesn't appear to be working correctly. I'm using the following command
cp -R /Users/TEMPLATE/* /System/Library/User\ Template/English.lproj
where TEMPLATE is the name of the user account I want to use as my custom template.
When I enter this command I receive the following:
usage: cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-fi | -n] [-pvX] source_file target_file
cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-fi | -n] [-pvX] source_file ... target_directory
Can anyone help me?
I'm using Leopard and am logged in as root.

I thought a typo may have been possible too. So I even copied and pasted the command string from the website which gave the directions for customizing the user template and it still wouldn't work. I ended up finding a post somewhere where someone else had problems with this and they simply suggested logging in as root and manually copying the files to the User Template folder which worked for me. Still like to know why it didn't work through the Terminal. Strange. Anyway, I have a workaround if I run into it again. Thanks for your help and the advice about the keychain!

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