Ignore or include *.apj files in source control?

Hi all,
We're using Mercurial (with the TortoiseHg front end) for our source control. I haven't really worried about this question since before now we've only had me as the writer. But now, we've added another writer and we'll be sharing projects. I've read in other posts that the *.apj files should be included in source control. But to me, it seems that the rhlayout.apj file doesn't have anything to do with the content of the help. So, what about this rhlayout.apj file? Should it be include or ignored in the repository. I'm leaning towards ignoring it as I don't want to mess up the layouts on my colleague's computer. Thoughts?
RH 7 (latest patch)
Using RoboHTML
HtmlHelp output (chm file)

That's correct Jared. The other items I mentioned are all controlled by different .apj files. Just as a matter of curiosity, why don't you want to share your SSLs?
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