Symlinks

Please forgive me if this has been covered elsewhere (I have had a few looks and found nothing useful). I am having a problem with symlinks in my project.

I have created a project from existing files and have added my SFTP location (ubuntu server). On the server /home/ contains maybe 10 symlinks all of which point to working copies from SVN. e.g. /home/abcd/ will point to /home/user/svn/abcd/trunk/home/abcd/, /home/foo/ will point to /home/user/svn/foo/trunk/home/foo/

When selecting the files for my project if i select /home/ the only thing i can see is the user folder in home. Namely it does not recognize the symlinks and hides them. I can easily enough add the location /home/user/svn and have access to all the files however the symlinks were intended to avoid having to traverse trunk/home/abcd to get to the files and locations specified in my includes/requires are not recognized. Is this a known issue? Is there something simple I can do to resolve this? Am i missing something? I am willing to try anything.

I am running  PhpStorm EAP-107.94 on OS X 10.6.7