save the current profile BEFORE you restoe any other profile, that should preserve your palettes somewhere
yeh. that is my current problem...I still am trying to learn the new paths....UGGG, but MDUB's plan worked
If I understand you right I think I might have a solution. I had a member of our team have all his toolbars and menu's disaapear.
I restored them by finding the main cui for me it was the civil.cui I'm sure you have something similar. Type 'menu' on the command line.
This is what I used and with great care. Find the cui you have saved as a workspace. Open that cui and it should restore your last good workspace.
Mine was located in this location:
c:\Programs Files\Autocad Civil 3D 2008\UserDataCache\Support
After restoring I saved all to my workspace of choice then closed and reopened as normal and it picked up my profile like normal.
I'm not saying it might be the same location but it might guide you in the right direction.
Mike P