Any issues installing steam in a nonstandard directory?
What I did is make a hard copy for the steamapps folder.
My games are on my L drive, but with the c:/() path you can still find them. works like a charm!
... Damn LP, that hadn't crossed my mind.
Good plan; just gonna junction the whole steam install elsewhere. Cheers 
Can't you hardlink folders?
Not on most drives, because of what it could do to your file system. Using enough ../../../ things should always get you to the root of the drive. But if you hardlink a folder to its child or something weird like that, that doesn't work anymore. And if, say, you hardlinked / to ~, you would have a hard time doing anything at all.
A junction ( /J switch) will function the way you'd expect a hardlinked directory to except accross network drives.
I use this when I'm feeling lazy:
http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshel ... llext.html