Gnome panel settings between SuSE 9.0 and 9.1?

Hi, I just installed SuSE 9.1 professional and I see that my old SuSE 9.0 panel settings in Gnome are not recognized by SuSE 9.1 and when I go back to a 9.0 machine the old panel settings (buttons and launchers) no longer show up. Is there some way around this? We need to be able to go back and forth between SuSE 9.0 and 9.1 machines but this makes that difficult. -- ------- Stephan