Launchpad arrangement is saved in PRAM?

I swapped my HDD from a mid-2011 MBP to a mid-2012 today. I wasn't surprised to find I needed to change some trackpad settings to my liking because I knew those are saved in the PRAM.
To my dismay, though, I found that my Launchpad arrangement is in disarray. I'd organized my apps carefully onto several pages, with many in well-named folders as well, and now the folders are mostly gone and I've got 100 or so apps scattered randomly across the pages. It seems I must now go through the tedious process of restoring my arrangement.
The only explanation I can think of is that OSX stores the arrangement in PRAM, but this seems a brain-dead design decision, so I'm wondering if I'm overlooking something and there's an easy way to recover the arrangement.

I've not used SubEthaEdit⇪ (although I've only read good things about it), but one of their features reads:
Also new: document state persistence, i.e. SubEthaEdit now remembers window positions, sizes, cursor positions, etc
Document state persistence using Xtended Attributes - SubEthaEdit now saves document state (mode, folding state, window position, selection and more) for plain text files using an extended filesystem attribute.
Presumably, that means you can select a number of text files, hit ⌘+⇣ to open them all at once, and if SubEthaEdit is your default text editor, it will reposition each of those separate document windows back to their last state. You could try their 30day trial to see if it does what you want. Like I said, I've not used it, so I don't know if that's what "document state persistence" means.

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