Shoutbox

I was just wondering if anyone could help me with this?
I got hold of a new laptop and went through the process of installing everything (including msn 6.2 and msgplus 3) and then signed into msn realising that my settings would not be on this computer. so i went to the old computer and chose the option in preferences save/load and then exported my settings to the hard disk. i then emailed these settings to myself and went back to the laptop went into plus preferences and chose import these settings. i received the message that this was completed successfully. My settings however were not present. Since then i have restarted msn as well as the computer hoping they would be loaded on next launch. They were not and now i do not have such things as custom names for every contact in list, quick texts, etc.
If someone could help me with this in order to have my settings on both computers that wouldbe great. Thankyou for help.
Daniel