While there is a status "UNCONFIRMED" - the default selection is NEW, thus people file bugs with the NEW state and that kind of defeats the purpose.

So please change the default selection to unconfirmed and have the user switch to NEW instead of the other way round.

AFAIK you only need to modify enter_bug.cgi

http://bzr.mozilla.org/bugzilla/3.6/annotate/head:/enter_bug.cgi#L546

Just remove the special handling of users with canconfirm/editbugs permission (as everyone has them)

i.e. remove the condition from the following

# If the user has no privs...
unless ($has_editbugs || $has_canconfirm) {
    # ... use UNCONFIRMED if available, else use the first status of the list.
    my $bug_status = (grep {$_ eq 'UNCONFIRMED'} @status) ? 'UNCONFIRMED' : $status[0];
    @status = ($bug_status);
}