Prevent deletion of a subdirectory

System

I am trying to deploy content to a directory on the web server that contains a sub-site in a subdirectory. I am required to have doDeletes turned on and I want to deploy the content without deleting the subdirectory.

For example:

/var/www.sitename.com/htdocs
/var/www.sitename.com/htdocs/international

I have a site at the top level in htdocs and want to keep the international site in the directory international. These two sites are managed by two different business units and we want them versioned separately and are keeping them in separate branches. This means two deployments, one into htdocs and a second into htdocs/international. I can keep content from being deployed into the international directory from the top level site by using a configuration like this:

      <source>
          <sourceFilesystem
              area = "/iwmnt/default/main/www/sitename/com/STAGING>
              <pathSpecification>
                  <path name = "." />
                  <filters>
                      <excludePath subPath="international" />
                      <excludePath subPath="templatedata" />
                  </filters>
              </pathSpecification>
          </sourceFilesystem>
      </source>

However, if I have doDeletes turned on, it will delete the directory international. Is there a way to keep OD from deleting this directory?

Platform Info:
OD 6.01
TS 6.1
Solaris 5.8