Convert DVD HD Project to DVD SP (clarification)

I am aware that the subject of this post has been addressed elsewhere in the various forums numerous times; for those who are searching for the answer and come upon this post first, here is a summary of my understanding of things to avoid further searching:
In order to burn a DVD SP project, you must create a new project with your project settings set to DVD SP by default. You can not burn from HD to SP, but you can burn from SP to HD. There is no option in DVD Studio Pro to convert your project from HD to SP, so scratch it and start over.
This brings me to my question; is there any way to bring the basic menu/link structure and such from your HD project (which you foolishly created thinking a basic conversion wouldn't be beyond this software suite) into your fresh project. I haven't been able to get two projects open at the same time, copy and paste from one project to another, or anything to help me reference the menu structure to work. (I can look at the produced HD DVD, but, as we all know, it's easy to lose track of links looking at an end product)
So far, DVD SP has been an extremely disappointing program to me; after struggling with it for a great many hours to get features I want implemented (only to find with research later that the implementation of those features is either broken, or missing), I now find I'll have to start the project over from scratch. I certainly hope they include a conversion feature in future releases.. this is a bit ridiculous.
Anyway, I'm quite frustrated, but thanks for any help which anyone may offer.

As an update, I have located the export->'Item Description' feature which exports a plain text description of the DVD project.
I changed the entry:
<key>DVDStandardVersion</key>
<string>HD</string>
To
<key>DVDStandardVersion</key>
<string>SD</string>
.. now I can open this file with DVD Studio Pro, and I have something similar to my project, but in SD. (I expect some things may be broken by the SD/HD conversion, but those should be quickly ironed out.)
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