How to easily backup Photoshop settings?

I was wondering if anyone knew of a simpler way to back up all my adobe product settings. Specifically Photoshop brushes, actions, workspaces, presets, ect..
I have a general idea on how to do it manually, going to each folder and copying the files. But I was really hoping someone knew of a handy program that did it for me, or a script of some sort. I have found one script but it only backs up the workspace and imports it.
Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

I think what the OP is after is a script that will collect all of the relevant config files and put them in a specific location so they can be copied to a USB drive or similar and perhaps used to configure an installation on another machine, maybe a laptop. Then another script to reverse the process.
At least that's what I'd like to do. Unfortunately I lack the scripting skills but will look at this for a project. If I can manage it I'll post it.
In a commercial scenario an employer may require configs to be stored in a disaster recovery archive where it's not feasible to backup the entire filesystem.
As you can see from Adobe's table at http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/828/cpsid_82893.html doing this manually isn't trivial and a lot of things you probably don't want are included in the containing folders. It would be useful to have all user-specific config files in one folder, something that used to be commonplace but is one are of Adobe's development where teams don't appear to be co-operating.

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