Keyboard shortcuts to user-scripts don't persist

Dear Adobe,
theres a behavior of indesign thats driving me crazy. Every now and then i am forced to repair and re-assign all my custom keyboard shortcuts to my user-scripts. That's lot of work.
This is the case when i had to flush the indesign preferences (most often in order to repair a disfunctioning palette). Indesign will then re-index the scripts with new internal unique identifiers and the keyboard shortcuts won't match the old unique identifiers anymore and get shuffled into chaos.
Also, this is preventing me from sharing my preferences over severall computers via a networked folder containing the preferences and shortcuts.
IT ALMOST WORKS! I can sync all my prefernces, colorsettings, workspaces etc. via Dropbox on 3 different computers. But the shuffling of user-script unique identifiers keeps it from working for the keyboard shortcuts.
Please consider to find a solution to this in your next patch.
Is there any way to influence the assigned unique identifiers for the scripts to sync them on different computers?
kind regards,
Stephan Möbius

Ah right - that is very messy indeed.
The only direct route you have with Adobe is the Wishform https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
But unless it gets flagged by a number of people with the same problem and it's causing havoc then I don't think it will be prioritised as a fix.
You can also post this on the InDesign wishlist forum http://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/114445-adobe-indesign-wishlist
I don't really see where else you can add a wishlist to.
I think perhaps visit the InDesign Scripting Forum and see if anyone can russle up a script that saves your shortcuts a bit better.
http://forums.adobe.com/community/indesign/indesign_scripting

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