Lightroom 3.2 - Using subst to a local drive fails

I recently installed Windows 7 64bit on a spare drive and started playing around with LR to see if there were any changes in performance between Win7 and XP.
My current configuration on XP x64 uses subst to map a directory on my "D" drive to the "P" drive. This helps in moving the catalog to another machine for archive purposes, everything stays intact as long as the P drive on that machine maps to the same directory structure.
After installing LR on Windows 7, I setup my local drive by running subst,
subst p: d:\photography
The P drive shows up correctly in Windows explorer. When I try to the load the catalog in LR I receive the error:
"Lightroom cannot launch with this catalog. It is either on a network volume or on a volume on which Lightroom cannot save changes."
This configuration worked without issue on Windows XP/LR 3.2, but Windows 7 changes something.
Has anyone else ran into this on Windows 7? From what I've been reading it's a fairly common configuration to help with drive management to utilize subst in this way. It makes sense that LR would want to check for a network drive, but in this case everything is local.
Thanks for the help.

I figured out a workaround. It's painful, but accomplishes what I wanted.
Instead of using subst to map the directory to a drive, you have to use subst to create the new drive letter, then use symbolic links to create the directory structure.
subst p: d:\photography\empty (directory contains no files, so P will be created with no files)
mklink /D P:\Catalog D:\Photography\Catalog
mklink /D P:\Design D:\Photography\Design
mklink /D P:\LR D:\Photography\LR
mklink /D P:\Proof D:\Photography\Proof
mklink /D P:\Video D:\Photography\Video
This ends up creating the exact same structure that the original subst command created, and appears to function within LR without issue.

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