Saving game profiles under Vista problem

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I'm getting a few reports of people losing their game profile under Vista.

After each level's loaded, the game updates a *.sav file which is stored in a SAVE subdirectory within the game directory (so typically,
C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\tank universal steamworks edition\saves\...

I understand Vista has a security feature which 'virtualises' file saving in order to keep the program files dir 'inviolable'?