[Evolution] Changing location of evolution directory

[Mark Knecht <markknecht attbi com>]

Hi,
   Question: How do I change the location Evolution looks for my
evolution directory? Is there something like a .evolutionrc file, or an
environmental path variable I can set to change where Evolution looks?

   I run a few distributions of Linux and would like to be able to use
Evolution in all of them. I already keep all of my user data on a
separate partition that I mount under my home directory on each
distribution. However, I've found that this doesn't work very well for
my home directory itself due to differences in things like KDE for each
distribution. (I.e. - the Desktop directory getting confused between
Redhat and Mandrake, for instance.)

   The problem I'm currently having is that for each distribution
/home/mark directory wants to set up it's own evolution directory. I'd
prefer to have the evolution directory in my data partition, and then
have Evolution look there.

   I tried using a link to evolution, but Evolution just tries setting
itself up again. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a way to do this?
Or is there a better way for me to arrange my data?

Thanks in advance,
Mark