So, I repaired the install, and that didn't work, I uninstalled and
reinstalled (to another location even) and still nothing. I have no
idea why this is happening, can someone shed some light on this please?
Anyway the solution was simple, somehow, my Current.vsk file got
deleted. This file is located in the drive-letter:\documents and
Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0
directory. There are 3 files there, current.vsk, user.vsk and
default.vsk. I copied all 3 of these files (although only current was
missing on my destination machine) from my home machine back into the
proper place on the destination and voila, my settings came back.
So yeah, hope this helps some other poor soul.