Wanted: a fake Desktop

I'm setting up an iMac that will have three partitions:
OSX 10.6.8
OSX 10.8
Data
Fine by me, but my partner who will be using it a lot of the time, doesn't like storing her stuff inside that funny-looking-gray-thing on her Desktop called "Data". She's likes her stuff spread all over the Desktop – and nowhere else. I've got a story about that: whenever I am game enough to venture onto her laptop (usually in response to her asking me to fix something), the first thing I do is View > Clean Up. And just like a bowerbird whose collection of blue items has been messed up, when next she visits her Desktop she puts everything back just the way it was. i.e. a mess (yet if I dare leave a magazine laying around in the lounge room…)
Anyway, now for various reasons* her stuff will have to be stored on the Data partition. So, is there a way of storing files on a partition, but make those files appear as if they are on a Desktop?
* Files will be stored on Data and backed up on another drive. I expect to erase the OSX partitions every now and then and would rather avoid having to worry about Desktop files being backed up and archived. On my own computer, none of my files are ever stored on the OSX partition.

Thanks for all the suggestions. Since it appears that I can't set up a real* Fake-Desktop (looks exactly like a Desktop but files are stored elsewhere), I've decided to try out a fake Fake-Desktop (FFD, looks similar to a real Desktop).
Name the folder (or volume) where files are to be stored: Desktop.
Make it fit the whole window and set to Icon view.
From View, hide all the bars (Status, Tool, Path, Sidebar)
Use Show View Options to set the background.
To force this window to open at login (just in case it is closed accidentally) use System Preferences > Accounts > Login Items
Voila – an FFD. Looks a bit weird to me, knowing that it covers the real Desktop and that instant access to disks and bars is lost, but Jenny almost never uses those things anyway. If I can't convince her to get more serious about using folders and hard drives, I'll see how she goes with an FFD.
*Talking about real Fake items reminds me of my time in Singapore in the 1980s when the touts in Orchard Rd would pester me about copy watches: "You want buy copy watch?". So I'd look at their wares for a minute or so before declaring: "Hey, this isn't a real copy watch. This says Rolex! I want one that says Copy Watch". Our little interaction would usually end with them rather annoyed and telling me something like: "You stupid!" That particular tout wouldn't bother me again.

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