Programatically setting preferences - cache locations etc.

Hi all,
I've had a little look around but can't seem to find the answer to this question. I'd like to have a way of defining, at a machine level, the location for After Effects (and for that matter, Premiere and other Adobe apps') cache directories.
We have NFS mounted home directories with soft and hard quotas and every time the AE prefs get munged, users must remember to change these preferences or risk hitting their quota limit, which causes all manner of problems.
Since the introduction of CS5.5, disk cache is enabled by default, which is obviously a good thing for performance, but ideally, we'd be able to alert the user to the status of the cache directories at every launch of the application and provide an easy way to set the location to a local disk, pre-populating say /Users/Shared/Adobe/Caches or similar.
In the preferences file for AE CS6 (Adobe After Effects 11.0-x64 Prefs) there seems to be one path under the key ["Disk Cache Controls"] "Folder 6" but in the application iteself, there are other values, presumably for the Dynamic Link features of all the apps, which tend to point to a directory under ~/Library/Preferences/Adobe/Common (though quite why potentially massive media files are stored under users' preferences folders is beyond me.)
Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

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var cacheFolder = app.preferences.getPrefAsString("Disk Cache Controls", "Folder 7"); // get your current cache folder
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This one did not get answered completely.
************************* Question:
Hello,
I want to deploy JWS on a client PC with Microsoft XP OS. This client have multiple users. JWS put a file deployment.properties in the directory "documents and setting" for the current user.
How can I create a uniquely file deployment.properties for all users of this client (new and existing profiles) ?
Create a directory "documents and setting/all users/application data/sun/java/deployment/" with the file deployment.properties don't work.
Create a directory "documents and setting/default user/application data/sun/java/deployment/" with the file deployment.properties is working but is not good for the existing users. This is good uniquely for new users.
is there a solution ?
King regards,
funchung
************************* ANSWER:
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***************************** HIS REPLY
I've tried this and it doesn't seem to work.
I've also tried createing a deployment.config file as per the http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/deployment/deployment-guide/properties.html article and this doesn't work for me.
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******************************** MY REPLY:
This is true.
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