English.lproj template ACL's change

[macgeekinme]

I'm having a problem with Leopard's Disk Utility modifying the permissions to a modified English.lproj template that I create. The template works fine after it is created and saved as English.lproj at /System/Library/User Template I can log in as a new user and I get my template with all the modifications to the dock, browsers, etc. However, when I run Disk Utility it changes the permissions so I get Apple's standard template again. Lastly, after DU breaks my new template, I can go into the terminal and do a sudo chmod and chgrp to the /Users/newuser ~ and everything works again.

I've tried using cp and ditto to preserve the ACL's on the template. Once I copy or ditto my template to English.lproj I can see via the terminal that the ACL's are still there. Then run DU, and it breaks. Running 10.5.6.

Here's what I've tried...
:~root# sudo ditto -rsrcFork English.lproj/* English.lproj.bak
:~root# sudo rm -rf /System/Library/User\ Template/English.lproj/*
:~root# sudo cp -R /Users/test/* /System/Library/User\ Template/English.lproj/
:~root# sudo chown -R root English.lproj
:~root# sudo chgrp -R wheel English.lproj

I've also tried sudo ditto /Users/test /System/Library/User\ Template/English.lproj

How do I copy the test user's template to the English.lproj template and make DU stop breaking it?!

Thank you!