Plain and Simple - How do I create a GPO to deploy a Safe Sender list?

When I open Outlook, I don't see any entries in my safe sender list.  

I read one of the other threads and disabled the Import Append setting and created a DWord value of 1 for JunkMailImportLists and JunkMailImportAppend in the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\office\14.0\outlook\options\mail

At that location, I do see a JunkMailSafeSendersFile whose value is the path to the network share containing the file.  The path does contain spaces so I enclosed the entire thing in quotes:  

"\\emcc.edu\home\IT System Resources\Whitelist\whitelist.txt"

Not sure if the quotes were needed or not.

Despite numerous gpupdates and reboots, my safe send list remains vacant.

I can manually import the file in Outlook so I don't think it has anything to do with the file content or permissions.