  This paper presents the effect of self-consistent plasma backgrounds
including plasma-neutral interactions, on the dynamics of filament propagation.
The principle focus is on the influence of the neutrals on the filament through
both direct interactions and through their influence on the plasma background.
Both direct and indirect interactions influence the motion of filaments. A
monotonic increase of filament peak velocity with upstream electron temperature
is observed, while a decrease with increasing electron density is observed. If
ordered by the target temperature, the density dependence disappears and the
filament velocity is only a function of the target temperature. Smaller
filaments keep a density dependence, as a result of the density dependence of
the plasma viscosity. The critical size $\delta^*$, where filaments are
fastest, is shifted to larger sizes for higher densities, due to the plasma
viscosity. If the density dependence of the plasma viscosity is removed,
$\delta^*$ has no temperature dependence, but rather a density dependence.
