MDT 2012 - Pre-Deployment File Deletion

Hi,
I have a small problem with migrating XP to Win 7 using MDT. Basically, I have about 200 machines to migrate but the TS will not allow me to copy user data. The error I get is "A supported previous version of Windows was not found on this computer.
Data and settings cannot be restored".
After a lot of digging around, it seems that the cause is a Program Files (x86) directory on the local disk which was put there by an Outlook Archiving add-on. I'm guessing that when MDT scans the disk, it sees this and 'thinks' it's an x64 OS. I know for
a fact that this is the cause of the problem, as, when I delete the folder manually and re-run the TS, it all works perfectly, the migration of data occurs, Win 7 installs and the data is put back - no issues at all.
Is there a way to configure the TS to remove or ignore this directory before the disk is scanned? I've tried using a command-line rmdir /q but I can't get it to work and, if I'm honest, not entirely sure it will work the way I've done it.
Hopefully someone can put me out of this misery as I don't particularly want to manually remove it on all machines prior to deployment.
Thanks
Paul

Dan - I've tried putting this command in various different places of the TS. Firstly at the top of the State Capture section and then at Initialization, which hasn't made a difference.
I don't want to do this as a logon script for the domain as there are already a handful of Win7 machines on the domain, which could cause an issue.
Frank - rd <PATH> /s /q was what I initially tried and this wasn't successful, neither was the other, but I'm guessing I may not have it in the correct position within the TS?

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