Presets for Nikon D300

I have spent some time fiddling in Lightroom 1.4.1 trying to find a preset that looks similar to the "Vivid" setting in the camera. In case it is useful/interesting for others, here it is:
http://superelectric.net/tmp/D300-CL.lrtemplate
Comments and suggestions appreciated :-)

Hi,
I'd like to try this, but it's a text file. How do you import it into LR?
Nevermind ... figured it out. Stripped off appended .txt.

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