[JKT]

It used to be very easy to get access to all your prefs in a .plist as, prior to 10.4, they were plain text .xml files that you could view in TextEdit. However, with 10.4, Apple started encoding .plist as binary files so this put the kibosh on being able to open them in TextEdit and copy/paste e.g. your site specific prefs directly from your backup to the newly created .plist. The big problem here is that Property List Editor in the Developer tools is rubbish and you can't select more than one item at a time to be able to copy and export particular settings.

If anyone knows how to view the 10.4 .plist files as plain text so you can do this again, it would be a great help.