Saving Opened attachments in a secure environment (no local drive access)

We are evaluating Windows 7 and Office 2010 in a secure environment and have a strange issue when saving opened Office attachments from Outlook 2010.
If an Office (Word, Excel or Powerpoint) file is opened from a received email within Outlook 2010 and a user then attempts to save, they are presented with a restriction error message as below:
This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator.
Upon clicking OK, they are then presented with a Save As dialogue box in the correct location (i.e. their redirected Home Drive location on a network share).
We block any access to the C:\ drive (or any local drives other than the optical drive) and the users have a roaming non-cached profile.
The OutlookSecureTempFolder value in the registry is C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.Outlook\RANDOMSTRING\
I tried altering this to a network location which I knew the user would have write access over, but Outlook just overwrote my custom value with a new one of its own.
I ran ProcMon and determined that the machine is getting ACCESS_DENIED when trying to create files in that location.
Any ideas?

I've the same problem too.
to have more than one approuved locations displayed, you have to enable this policy too:
Places Bar Locations
the office 2010 GPO.
Specify the same locations you have approuved in the other GPO
click User
Configuration, click Administrative
Templates, click Microsoft
Office 2010, double-click File
Open/Save dialog box, and then click Places
Bar Locations.
Problem solved for me.
Thanks to all of you. I've spend a lot of time on this problem.

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