We actually own a corporate Appsense license. I have not done to much digging on how powerful it really is, we basically just use it to capture application settings and profile specific settings so im sure there is more we could be doing there.
I have also looked into Persona Management but we have not tested it. This is something im going to research and I appreciate the link you provided.
But, if anyone else has any tips or tricks for GPO folder redirection im all ears! I know this worked fairly well in Citrix so im sure its possible to do in VMWare im just not sure what my issue is specifically. It seems to work for 90% of the user base 90% of the time, but there seems to always be one or two stragglers that seems to not get redirected.