Universal Proxy settings...ideas?

Our corporate network team uses Trend products for our company proxy/web filtering solution. My issues are with it are as follows and I was wondering if anyone here has any suggestions:
1) The proxy requires authentication. For our Windows users this is not an issue b/c it's tied to their AD account. When they login to the domain the a script sets their proxy settings and their logged in credentials provide pass thru from there. On the Macs, not so simply. Because we are currently still using local accounts for our Mac users, they have to authenticate via dialog box that pops up, which of course they can then add to their KeyChain. No "big" problem here, but it leads to others...
2) OS X proxy settings in the Network prefs only work on Safari. They do not affect Firefox or Netscape, both of which we need for various other websites which don't work with Safari. Specifically our employee time sheet service (ADP) and our corporate help desk system.
Is there a way, perhaps by leveraging a proxy.pac file on a server or something, to set it up so that when we put all our settings in an image, it works for every user that hits the machine, no matter what browser they use?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Cody

Hey Cody, I hate to pass the buck, but I think you would get a faster response if you posted this in the "Getting Online & Networking" discussion at:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=755
I think they would help you better...not that we wouldn't try.
Cheers

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