Allowing a user to save changes

I am creating an app that is something similar to this one:-
http://demo.quietlyscheming.com/DragTile/DragDrop.html
However what I want is when a user drags an item from one tilelist into the other tilelist for them to be able to save these changes so that when they close the application and reopen it these changes will still be there i.e. if the top tilelist is tilelist1 and the bottom tilelist is tilelist2 and the user drags a couple of items to tilelist1 TO tilelist2 I want these items to appear in tilelist 2 after the app has been closed and reopened and the items that have been moved NOT to appear in tilelist 1 anymore.
I also want the user to be able to type their name into a text area and save it by clicking a save button so their name will also be shown next time they open the app.
What is the best way to do this? Via xml perhaps? I've used xml to contain data that populates a site in the past but never used it where it allows user's to actually insert data into an xml file. Are there any examples of anything simiar that may help me out?

That may work but I'm not sure on how to apply it to my own application. Here's a little bit of my code to show you what I mean. The button marked "populate" populates the left hand tilelist when clicked and also acts as a reset button if the user wants to reset the links back to normal. What I want is when the button marked "save" is clicked for all the changes a user has made to both tilelists to be saved. How can the following code be edited to allow that:-
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><mx:WindowedApplication
xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute">
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
import mx.collections.*;
private function profile1NewsAndSportReset():void {profile1NewsAndSportAddLinksTilelist.dataProvider =
new ArrayCollection([{link:
"www.bbcnews.com", label:"BBC News", icon:"image7", largeImage:"assets/images/bbcnews_small.png", title:"BBC News", description:"BBC News description will go here"},{link:
"www.itv.com/", label:"ITV", icon:"image5", largeImage:"assets/images/itv_small.png", title:"ITV", description:"ITV Description will go here"},{link:
"www.skynews.com", label:"Sky News", icon:"image10", largeImage:"assets/images/skynews_small.png", title:"Sky News", description:"Sky News Description will go here"},]);
profile1NewsAndSportLinkChoice.dataProvider =
new ArrayCollection([]);}
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:Button click="profile1NewsAndSportReset()" id="pop" label="populate tilelists" y="0"/>
<mx:TileList id="profile1NewsAndSportLinkChoice" fontWeight="bold" dragEnabled="true" dragMoveEnabled="true" dropEnabled="true" height="292" width="650" top="0" left="521" columnCount="5" rowHeight="145" columnWidth="125" doubleClickEnabled="true" backgroundColor="#000000" borderColor="#FFFFFF" color="#FFFFFF" borderSides="top right left"/>
<mx:TileList id="profile1NewsAndSportAddLinksTilelist" fontWeight="bold" dragEnabled="true" dragMoveEnabled="true" dropEnabled="true" height="419" width="385" top="0" left="128" columnCount="3" rowHeight="145" columnWidth="125" doubleClickEnabled="true" backgroundColor="#000000" borderColor="#FFFFFF" color="#FFFFFF" borderStyle="solid" borderThickness="2" dropShadowEnabled="true"/>
<mx:Button click="" id="save" label="Save Changes" x="0" y="30"/>
</mx:WindowedApplication>

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