Home sync restoring files I deleted

I have mobile home sync set up between our office Macs and our Snow Leopard Server, the syncing works fine, but there's a really annoying problem.
I have my home set to only sync manually -- so every few days I tell it to sync myself when I'm ready. However, I just deleted a bunch of files locally while cleaning up, and a sync with my network home just restores back all of the files I intentionally deleted...
Is there a way to override and "prefer" the files on my local?

Copy the files to the external drive in the Finder instead of going through Time Machine. If you want that drive to have a bootable OS, you'll need to use software such as Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper.
Time Machine backups are designed for recovery of accidentally or inadvertently deleted files. They aren't meant for primary storage of files you don't want on any other drive. In any case, drives eventually fail; anything you want to keep shouldn't be on only one drive.
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