Using Dreamweaver without roaming user profiles.

In the college I work at, we have a single Windows R2 2008 domain of consisting of hundreds of Windows 7 workstations that students use to do their work.
Due to various network performance issues, last year we stopped using roaming user profiles for both staff and students, and instead use home directory redirection for things like desktop content and favorites. But we have hit a problem with the Dreamweaver CS5.5 application. Students using it are said to be having to repeatedly set up Dreamweaver connections to the same FTP server, in effect re-configuring Dreamweaver after login before they can use it.
I've not had any confirmation from Adobe, but it appears that because roaming profiles are not being used, the local profiles that Dreamweaver saves settings to is resulting in students having to re-configure settings whenever they log into a computer.
Is there a way that Dreamweaver can be forced, via a group policy or other means, to save/load its settings to/from the home directory of a user so that the user can then log into any computer on the domain and the Dreamweaver application will automatically load its saved settings for that user?

Setting the Roaming profile is a Computer configuration
Setting the Exclusions is a User Configuration.
Hopefully you are applying the Computer configuration to an OU with Computer objects and the User Configuration to an OU that contains the User objects?
Is loopback processing affecting an of the OU's that are parents of the Computer objects OU (or the child OU itself?)
If you are not restarting the computer, then your profile will remain locked and user settings will not be able to write to the registry to change the location.
Have you:
enabled the user exclusions
gpupdate /force
reboot the computer
login
I know under some circumstances profile redirection/roaming can take two reboot cycles to apply correctly.
Can you run the Group Policy Result Wizard from GPMC for the correct user and computer to ensure your policies are applying as you think they are?
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Thanks for posting here.
According to your discription above, you can check the microsoft artical as below:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/938120/
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