You're a star, probably will work actually though the way I have done it to be brutally honest.
I went and tar balled it (not sure if that's the right way of saying what I did) but using z as the compression so:
tar -czpvf then the file name and directory etc...
Anyways I did a restore of the tips and the config settings and restored them from a config change I made and seems to come up as read anyways when I put them in the /cur directory.
I will have a read of those links though!
Many thanks!