FCP user preference question

I got a project from overseas, gotta fly there to edit a video. they provide my basic facilities.
I used to edit on my own machine....because the short cuts and whole the favorite effects and transitions that I saved in my FCP.
So my question is, since I gonna shift my FCP user preference files to another FCP, do they affect other editor's preferences. I am pretty sure on the FCP, there are lots of preference settings that other editors made.
in particular, let's say my shiftcontrol2 is 3 ways color correction tool, but on the computer that I am going to use might not be the color 3 ways, it might be some other functions...
can i just save their preference in a folder, and put my preference in , and after i am done, and put back their preference..?
thanks for your advice and suggestion in advance,
your help is highly appreciated
Hiro

Hiro
You can use FCP Rescue to backup FCP preferences file and restore it later:
http://fcprescue.andersholck.com/
Or you can do it manually:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93385
Hope that helps !
  Alberto

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