Customised Portlet Repositories

Hi Everyone
In our Portal design we would like to incorporate a customised Portlet Repository to assist with controlled page personalisation by our users.
As documented, the Portlet Repository is not selectable for export via transport set, and the pages within cannot be moved to another page group or as a template.
Using other means, has anyone every managed to export/migrate a Portlet Repository page group from one platform to another and avoid rebuilding the repository structure manually?
I know the doco says no, but never say never with Oracle Portal... :-)
Thanks for any comments
Dennis

Ok, have managed to get it working with a DBPreferenceStore, so just for info if anyone else has the same problem: I replaced the FilePreferenceStore node in provider.xml with the following:
<preferenceStore class="oracle.portal.provider.v2.preference.DBPreferenceStore">
<name>myAnyName</name>
<connection>jdbc/myDataSourceName</connection>
</preferenceStore>
and then created a table (in the schema which the datasource named in the <connection> above points to), as follows (script obtained on Oracle site):
CREATE TABLE JPDK_PREFERENCE_STORE2 (
PATH_TYPE VARCHAR2 (60) NOT NULL,
REFERENCE_PATH VARCHAR2 (250) NOT NULL,
SEARCH_PATH VARCHAR2 (250) NOT NULL,
DATA_CLASS VARCHAR2 (250),
LONG_VALUE LONG RAW,
CONSTRAINT JPS2_PK
PRIMARY KEY ( REFERENCE_PATH, PATH_TYPE ) ) ;
CREATE INDEX JPDK_PATH_TYPES2 ON
JPDK_PREFERENCE_STORE2(PATH_TYPE)
CREATE INDEX JPDK_SEARCH_PREFS2 ON
JPDK_PREFERENCE_STORE2(SEARCH_PATH)
And that was it.
Thanks a lot for your help meselfe

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Hi Amjad,
thank you very much for time and effort you spent on helping me solving this problem.
Unfortunately, I think I already tried what you suggest in your answer, but without success. From my experience, the following two calls:
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%>
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