Backing-up Dreamweaver's control of a site.

Hi Folks
I learned early on how to backup site definitions, but is there anything else I have to manually backup to ensure that Dreamweaver CS4 will always retain its awareness of all the linked templates and library items etc. that it controls.
If I had to reinstall Dreamweaver, or restore my operating system from an image that was made weeks or months ago, would Dreamweaver still be able to work its magic and correctly populate updates to all the connected pages? Where does it keep this information? Is it all just in the webpage itself or is there a file somewhere. A file that could be recovered from a wrecked and unbootable OS?
Cheers.
Brian

Back again
I want to restart this thread because after restoring my system to an earlier time I have found not everything survives. It’s mainly personal configuration settings of Dreamweaver that don’t carry over so I figure there must be a setting somewhere to save and transfer such stuff.
The main thing is that the status of cloaked items are not there, which is not good, but I have discovered that they are saved in the Site Definitions backup, so as long as I do a definitions backup just before restoring my system I can re-apply that to the older Dreamweaver, however it requires deleting the current definitions for the site or the new import is seen as a new site and renamed.
Personally saved code snippets are also not there, but I’ve found they are saved in an Adobe folder in the user document folders and copying over this entire folder does the trick for snippets and a few other things like workspaces and personal dictionary. I’ve yet to really use my restored system so no doubt there’s much more to be discovered.
For WinXP that folder path is - C:\Documents and Settings\MyUserName\Application Data\Adobe\Dreamweaver CS4
So before I spend more time on this does anyone know the recommended way or built-in backup setting to transfer all data to a restored system? It’s such an obvious required function that it’s probably staring me right in the face, but damned if I can see it. If almost everything personal is in that Adobe folder with no other connections to the registry or the like, then that will do nicely for most things as it could even be recovered from an unbootable operating system. The cloaked items saved in site definitions requires a bootable system to make the backup, so it would be good to know where they are saved. I even tried swapping over the entire Dreamweaver Program Files Folder but this did not do it.
Regards
Brian

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