Skip Sync

What I’m trying to achieve is a set up where users Portable Home Directories don’t sync any media files when they log-out. The reason behind this is we have a central storage area when they should be placing all the .mov and .aiff's ett not on there PHD.
Using WorkGroup Manager and Mobility I have added a few strings to the skip section.
"Ends with" .mov
"Ends with" .aiff
"Ends with" .aac
"Ends with" .mp3
(the above in upper case as well)
The management set to "Always".
The files tend to be all over the place of their PHD so I have not done it by folder location.
Full Path: ~/Music
Have I gone about this the best way? The only other way I can think of is an apple script of some description but I’m not that familiar with Apple Script unfortunately.
I’ve been testing it on a test account but want to implement it on a group of users when it proven.
With the test account it does not seam to remove the files & when I log on to another machine they are still present in the PHD. I hoping they will be removed from anywhere with in the PHD, (where will the go? deleted?)
I’ve checked the /Library/Managed Preferences/<usershortname>/com.apple.homeSync.plist to see if the managed settings are reaching the client and they are but still not taking effect,
Have I missed something?
ta
G5 Quad, Xserve, Mac Book Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Hi Mr S
You are going about it in the right way, but I'm a bit confused by what you are expecting it to do when you say:
With the test account it does not seam to remove the
files & when I log on to another machine they are
still present in the PHD. I hoping they will be
removed from anywhere with in the PHD, (where will
the go? deleted?)
Do you mean that you are expecting it to remove files from the users PHD on the local machine, or that the files are being transferred to the server even though you specified that they shouldn't be?
If there are files on the server's copy of the PHD allready, skipping particular file types will not cause them to be removed on the Server, it just means that the client machine won't attempt to sync those files.
Regards
David

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