Discontinued Search Bar Search Engine installed on my XP laptop, can I copy it to my Win7 (tower) install? [If so, how?]

There is a search engine that was available for a time, that I installed on my laptop (running Windows XP). [The engine was for EpGuides.Com... it was a modified Google search where "allintitle: site:epguides.com " is auto-inserted before the search term.] After using it for a while, I realized just how useful it would be on my 'home' computer (tower) which is running Win7.
Other than copying my ENTIRE install from Program Files on the XP to Program Files (x86) on the Win7, is there another way to get that search engine copied over or installed? I looked for a '.xml' file named "epguides" [actually did a search of the entire install for as little as "epg"] and nothing could be found.
There is a currently-available Search Engine for TVRage (the only thing that turns up when searching the add-ons page for 'epguides'), but that doesn't get me to the information I need. It ends up faster going to EpGuide's search page and going from there. But since I know the search engine exists in my other install, I was hoping I could somehow 'extract' and 'transplant' it into this one.
Thank you to anyone who can help!

NEVERMIND! After submitting this, I just started randomly reading help requests that might be 'interesting', and found one about someone who'd had a Search Engine hijacked [http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/757307?s=%22Search+Engines%22+%22Search+Bar%22&as=s]. From the information given to them, I was able to figure out how to find the elusive "epguides.xml" file and copy it over and it works perfectly!
I figured I'd post this as a reply, rather than edit the original, because - seeing it was responded to - it would reduce the chance of someone opening this to answer it. But it might also help someone with a similar question.

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