Right, roaming profiles reside on the domain controller or server. In order to use the roaming profiles function successfully you have to be logged in as a domain administrator (which I was). Then the dialogue shows a list of all available roaming profiles. I selected all the solidworks users and the wizard proceed to show 'applying settings to user1, 2, 3 etc. ' until it was done. In other words every thing appeared to work properly.
BTW, having roaming profiles means if you sit down at any computer and log in, you see your personal desktop, email, my documents etc - ie. your whole documents and settings folder.
Unfortunately, although the wizard claimed success it became obvious very quickly that this function doesn't work at all - it had no apparent impact whatsoever on the selected users! I'll call my var tomorrow and see if I can find resolution.
I would rather not have roaming profiles enabled but it's not my choice as I'm just consulting for this customer and helping them setup their cad department. Their IT guy is the promulgator of roaming profiles....
Thanks,
Zander