Adding a DFS location to a Windows 7 library if the DFS location is not indexed?

As many of you are aware, W7 now includes libraries which amalgamates views of different locations into one view. Now, the only way to add a network location to the library is if it is indexed. I have seen suggestions of adding a symbolic link to the network location and then adding the local location to the library, but lets say for the sake of argument this is not what we want to do as it is somewhat inelegant. We redirect the users My Documents to say \\domain\dfsroot\%username%\My Documents and when because of the library requirement that the folder must be indexed it is showing in the locations box as an unsupported location. Additionally, when opening libraries you will se a yellow information bar telling you " Some library features are unavailable due to unsupported library locations. Click here to learn more..." If we enable offline files, then the redirected location is automatically added to the index and this message goes away as obviously it is now indexed. However, we do not particularly want to enable offline files for desktop machines as they are always connected and it seems silly to enable this functionality.

Do we install Windows Search on the file servers hosting the DFS shares as I've heard this still doesn't solve this issue:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsdesktopsearchhelp/thread/85525c46-1ab5-46e1-a288-e36561a6ffab

This isn't some weired use case scenario as I'm sure many organzations have users folders redirected to DFS locations and migrating to Windows 7 with the smae redirected folders would produce this issue. Does Microsoft want people to use Offline Files on the desktop?