TFS and RoboHELP

Hi all,
We're currently evaluating TFS as a storage facility for our help projects. Of course we work locally on the C drive and the idea is to use TFS as a dumb storage facility for the files and folders that make up each help project very much along the the lines suggested by Colum. The help is in the form of modular self contained help projects and we're not allowing multiple checkouts of the same help project. The entire help project is checked out, worked on then can be checked back in again.
So a few questions:
How would people suggest we handle the situation when a topic's filename is changed?
What is the best way to handle deleting a topic file wrt TFS?
What are your experiences of using TFS with RoboHELP please
Thanks

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The RoboColum(n)
@robocolumn
Colum McAndrew

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