Hey Powdered,

I may not be completely tracking on your problem here, and not certain if your running on PC or Mac, or what ver you are driving (maybe add this to your signature)...............but the attached folder .GIF shows where your keyboard prefs and such are located. I had to copy and paste these from the AC 8.1 folder into the 8.2 folder to get mine back.

Check the file sizes in both folders and see if they match. If not give the copy+paste a try. In the future, if your preferences are heavily modified like mine are I actually save a copy to disc somewhere to make sure I won't loose them permanently. The voice of experience............