Setting up user preferences in web analysis

From an admin perspective does anybody know how to setup preferences for a user/group in WA? I want to establish the users prefs, not them. Ideally, I would like to setup a group/shared preference and then put users in that group/share and have the user preferences point to the group/share preferences. As an admin i can repoint the user prefs to the group/share prefs. I did this in the web analyzer 7.2 but i don't know how to do this in system 9. I'm guessing i would do this in Shared Services??

FYI...
I am getting closer with this one. Shared services is the key. I set the startup page for WA in SS under projects. Users are seeing the WA document but i need for them to repoint their preferences to a shared preference under <Profiles>. My problem is the users don't see the shared pref file under the <Profiles> folder. As an admin I see the file. I suspect it has to do with SS provisioning but based on the provisioning for the users i thought they would see the shared pref file. Does anybody have any knowledge on pushing out shared preferences to users?

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