Modify function palette quickly?

Hi, everyone
I got a boring question when I modifying the function palette.
Now I'm developing an instrument driver with LabVIEW7.0.
I have an old version of its driver, so only I need to do is to update it, as the function palette.
For example, the prefix of the old version driver is xyz2000, this time I should change it to xyz1000.
But when I change the folder name to xyz1000(originally is xyz2000) and open the old version driver with LabVIEW,
the function palette is full of [?]icon.
Therefore I try to modify the following original xyz2000 mnu files with UE(text editor),
I simply think if I replace all the [xyz2000] to [xyz1000] is just ok, but I failed.
I got something like"memory is not enought" error.
acstat.mnu
applic.mnu
config.mnu
data.mnu
dir.mnu
util.mnu
Does everyone have some ideas how to modify the function palette quickly in my case?
Cause I think insert all the vis one by one again to function palette is a boring job ^o^, no easier way(just like modify the mnu file)?
Help me plz, thank you

This unfortunately doesn't apply to LV7.0, but there was a new feature in LV8.6 (it may have been in 8.5) for editing palettes much more quickly and easily. It was a VI-based set of functions for editing palettes. This would enable you to write a quick utility to manage your palette files and rename things more quickly and easily as you like.
Message Edited by Jarrod S. on 12-29-2008 11:14 AM
Jarrod S.
National Instruments

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