Exclude large files from mobile home sync

Hi, is there a way to exclude files from mobile home sync based on their file size? For example, I work with many VMs on my MacBook Pro, juggling around between different installation ISOs for various Linux distros and version of Windows. For the mostpart, these large ISOs (some pushing 4GB in size) are only used on my MacBook and not on my Mac Mini running OS X Lion Server.
I have mobile home sync set up, and it's been working great, until I happen to download a large file. If I'm not paying attention, my home directory will begin to sync with the server, pushing these large files over the wireless network, soaking up all of the bandwidth.
I understand I can create specific directories to exclude from syncing via Workgroup Manager, and also use various rules with regex in regard to the naming of the files and directories that should also be excluded from sync. But I'm often juggling around files of various formats between various directories in my development environment, and it would be troublesome to write rules that would encapsulate all of the scenarios. The most simple solution would be to base it on file size, and I can't seem to find much on this in Workgroup Manager.
Anyone know of a way to exclude files from mobile home sync based on their file size?

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