Modifying format of listoffigures [ lof ]

For some reason, my university (University of California, San Diego)
requires that the list of figures ( \listoffigures ) in the
dissertation has the word "Figure" before every entry, i.e., :

LIST OF FIGURES

1.1 Yadda......... 5
1.2 Flonk flonk... 7

Needs to be changed to

Figure 1.1 Yadda......... 5
Figure 1.2 Flonk flonk... 7

since in the actual document this is how the figure caption appears. I
have no clue how to modify this. I have tried altering the .lof file
by hand but then the space for the "Figure X.X" part is not changed so
the caption overlaps the title of the figure. It doesn't seem to be
under the control of the .sty or .cls file, I think it must be
somewhere in whatever controls \caption, or whatever knows how to read
in .lof files.

Any help would really be appreciated, by me and I'm sure by anyone at
UCSD (I'm guessing other UC schools too.)
Thanks!
-Ian

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