Setting default home page for managed computers

We are currently running Mac OS X Leopard Server, which manages 22 other machines in a school environment.
We also have a wiki/blog/webmail page setup at the address artroom.local and we want this to be the homepage on every managed machine in the room.
How do we do this - we have looked everywhere in Server Admin and Workgroup Manager to find this, as well as trying to change the homepage on the root account of each individual machine to no avail.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Could you tell me the command to distribute it to all our managed computers from terminal?
Once I know that, we can finally get back on track setting up the rest of our managed machines

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Hello
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thanks

Then just add it yourself. Do this:
Select any other value available in the com.apple.Safari manifest and then edit the raw xml. This can be done by doing the normal process described above but choosing something other than Home Page. I choose Download location. Then, click back on Accounts and go to the Inspector tab. If you do not have it enable, go WGM's preferences and enable the "show all records tab."
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>mcxapplicationdata</key>
<dict>
<key>com.apple.Safari</key>
<dict>
<key>Forced</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>mcxpreferencesettings</key>
<dict>
<key>DownloadsPath</key>
<string>~/NEW_Download/</string>
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<key>mcx_targets</key>
<array>
<string>user-managed</string>
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</dict>
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</plist>
Simply hand enter the value you want so it looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>mcxapplicationdata</key>
<dict>
<key>com.apple.Safari</key>
<dict>
<key>Forced</key>
<array>
<dict>
<key>mcxpreferencesettings</key>
<dict>
<key>DownloadsPath</key>
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<key>HomePage</key>
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<key>mcx_targets</key>
<array>
<string>user-managed</string>
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THen optionally, remove the DownloadPath key and value.
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Best regards
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*http://www-archive.mozilla.org/catalog/end-user/customizing/briefprefs.html
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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/777/
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Any improvement?
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I have new windows opening when I click on a link. Or when I click on the FF-Icon. New windows are the default setting.
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When I

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