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erco61,
Did you figure this problem out? I was able to set the default theme for all new users using the group policy editor in 64 bit windows 7 as shown above. Didn't bother with the registry keys. Just copied my theme to the themes directory and set the path in GPO to C:\Windows\Resources\Themes\mytheme.theme.
You still need to follow post #6 for the desktop shortcuts. I don't know if you put IE favorites into C:\Users\Default\Favorites if they will be copied to new profiles or not. If not, you can load the default user hive and add a RunOnce entry (i.e. newUser.bat) to copy the shortcuts from a directory (i.e. C:\bin\favorites) to C:\Users\%username%\Favorites. That should automate that process of copying the shortcuts to newly created profiles the first time the user logs on.
Hope that helps.