Effects plug-ins, and user preset weirdness

Question

Here's a headache for you.
I've noticed that when using VST/DX effects in Audition that it adds its very own load/save preset bar to whatever effects application is in use, and that when saving presets with this quick access bar that it doesn't appear to save the presets anywhere within said efx plug-in's program directory.
The end result is that user created presets saved in this way won't show up using said plug-ins in any other audio editing program.
Audition manages to associate the proper user presets with their respective plug-ins, which leads me to believe it's saving the information in specific files/directories pertaining to each plugin.
I've rooted around a bit in Audition's program directories and so far have come up with no helpful leads.
This leads me to my question: where the hell Audition is saving these presets on the hard drive?

Answer 1

Tell me, have you noticed AA not saving your VST/DX plugin settings from session to session? That is, it resets itself to a "default" setting when you exit the session and when you return to the session your effect settings are no longer in the state you left them, but in a "default" state.
(This doesn't occur in any Pro Tools or Acid Pro, both of which "remember" the state in which I left them...)
Your observation of AA adding its own preset bar is interesting. Pro Tools and Acid don't do that. I wonder if that has anything to do with the issue I described...?