non-UI way to make playlist Window visible by default?

[big_gorilla]

I'm running .8.6.b version of VLC on WIndows VIsta (my question probably applies to other OSes as well) with the wxWidgets interface.

When you click on the playlist button it opens the playlist window, or opens the embedded playlist in the main window. I noticed that this persists even after closing and opening the program. I want to have the program open by default for users (or a user) with the embedded playlist open. What is the best way to do this that doesn't involve launching the program first and setting the UI that way?

I determined that this was set in line 1771 of the file c:\users\username\appdata\roaming\vlc\vlcrc and looks something like this:
wx-config-last=(-1,0,0,1152,864)(0,488,446,371,107)(1,260,67,500,300)(6,1,0,524,241). I can change this to toggle the embedded playlist on or off, but is there a better way?