I can't work out how to work the genie plugin author so I pull them myself.
When setting up the job, I select Registry on the "My Profiles" tab, then choose "backup selected registry keys" and add HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\JRiver
Then I move on to the my folders tab and add the entire \application data\JRiver\ folder, and the entire \program files\media center\ folder.
I only save the current user\j. river key because that's where all my options and customisations are stored. The rest of the registry stuff is taken care of by MC itself during install.
When restoring, I only replace if the target does not exist, or is older than the backup files. Everything goes back where it came from.
First, I install MC, start it, and then close it again.
Next I install all my usual plugins. (I install my plugins into MC's \plugins folder, so that any data associated with them, pn skins, for example, are included in the backup job by default.)
Then I restore the genie backup job and start MC...
All my options settings are restored, my ipod settings, all keywords, thumbnail texts, player display customisations etc. etc. are restored, all thumbnails are built and ready to go, all mega and mini skins are available, as are visualisations and track info's.
It works, and works well.
My only slight concern is that over time, the registry key might be picking up a fair bit of redundancy, especially so as I run every beta build. So every so often, I skip the registry restore and let it build from a clean, current MC install.
-marko.