I searched the forums here som more and found this post:
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27014

Unfortunately no such code appears at line 128 in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/45xsession on 5.1.1.

I tried modifying the rsync at line 168 without the desired result. I suppose I could modify every single rsync that involves the home dir to copy the works every time... would be a tad redundant though but might guarantee the result I am after.

I'll keep searching the forums here, but if anyone has found a solution to this problem please share!