kde3 menu config file locations

Hi,

I'm setting up a desktop image for use by some of our faculty.  I'm
attempting to create a standard desktop.

I've toyed briefly with the kiosk admin tool, but thought I could get
away with something simpler.  Plus I'd just like to understand how thing
are put together before I start leaning on a gui admin tool.

I made a prototype account.  I set things up the way I want, and logged
the account out.  Then I tarred up that account's ~/.kde, ~/.config, and
~/.local directories.  A short Xsession script puts them in place as
required.  All is well and good, but for the menus.  My menu changes
don't follow.  I've looked for updated files using 'find . -mmin -1',
when I save menu changes.  They all seem to be in the directories I'm
copying.  Is anything updated outside of the home directories?

Another way of asking the same question might be: If I wanted to
manually insert a menu folder containing one item into my personal menu
by editing config files, how might I go about that?  I've tried setting
KDEDIRS, creating $KDEDIRS/share/applnk/<foldername>, and putting a
.desktop file in that folder.  As people more clueful than me might
ascertain, that didn't work.  What am I missing?

I'm using kde 3.2.2 from Debian sarge.

-- 
Ron Peterson
Network & Systems Manager
Mount Holyoke College