Roaming profile location being misinterpreted.

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We set the location for users' roaming profile through terminal services
through the GPO setting "Set path for TS Roaming Profiles". This expects the
setting to be specified as \\Computername\Sharename. The explain text further
details that a placeholder for the username (%username%) should not be added
as this is appended automatically.

With this setting set to the location we want, \\user\tsprofiles, this
should therefore be interpreted not as the location at which all users'
profiles should reside, i.e.
user1's profile is at \\user\tsprofiles\user1
user2's profile is at \\user\tsprofiles\user2

Today however, when any user tries to log on, Windows tries to load the
entire contents of \\user\tsprofiles (including every user's profile) into
the local profile.

Having created a new share (\\user\tsprofiles2) and repointed the location
in the policy, any user logging on sees this message:
Windows did not load your roaming profile [...] Windows did not load your
profile because a server copy of the profile folder already exists that does
not have the correct security. Either the current user or the administrator's
group must be the owner of the folder. Contact your network administrator.

There are no folders already in the share. The owner of the share is the
domain administrators. All authenticated users have full control to the
share, so createing a folder shouldn't be a problem.
The contents of userenv.log suggest that again the server is trying to load
the profile from \\user\profiles2, not creating a profile as
\user\profiles2\user1:
USERENV(198.1114) 12:50:29:843 LoadUserProfile: lpProfileInfo->lpProfilePath
= <\\USER\PROFILES2\>

Any ideas why this is happening?
 
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