I also have not had much luck with getting wind-blown hair to work right. However, if you turn down gravity (i.e. closer to zero) and increase air damping you can get hair to trail behind during movement. Then you can move the character "against" the wind for frames 1-25 or 1-28 and give the last few frames for the hair to start to settle. I used this to get hair to float convincingly in an underwater scene, and I imagine that it would work fairly well for the wind-blown look. I just haven't tried it since I did the underwater hair.