Updated to Access Connections 5.02 and location profiles disappeared

After updating Access Connections from 4.52 to 5.02 all the wireless location profiles are gone, including WEP keys, etc. The old version of AC worked fine on my X61S.
1) How can one upgrade to AC 5 without losing these?
2) I have complete system backups. In what file or registry entry can I find the saved location profiles from 4.52?

Same thing happened to me. Most frustrating...
I was able to find a listing of the now-missing profiles in "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Lenovo\Access Connections\Locations". Using regedit, I removed the following DWORD key, "m_bHideInList", from each entry and all of my location profiles now appear in Access Connections again as they were before. Looks like there also are a variety of other (rather straightforward) configuration parameters in the registry key(s) listed above, so hopefully something in there is the magic bullet.
Anyway, hope this helps.
C'mon Lenovo -- this seems to be sloppy coding, pure and simple. You're better than this!
Message Edited by zdt123 on 09-19-2008 11:28 AM
Message Edited by zdt123 on 09-19-2008 11:29 AM

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