Eclipse syntax highlighting preferences save and restore

Question

I spend some time customizing the colors for syntax highlighting in Eclipse (Java, JSP, HTML, CSS, etc.) but whenever I try to export these settings via File|Export|General|

Answer 1

The solution was to copy SOME - not all - of the files from {workspace}/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings/*.prefs into my other workspace.

In particular (per the https://stackoverflow.com/questions/96981/color-themes-for-eclipse thread):

org.eclipse.jdt.ui.prefs = Syntax Coloring    
org.eclipse.ui.editors.prefs = Text Editors

Copying other files caused things to break.

There are a couple of notes to add:

1. I had to copy the aforementioned pair of files several times before I got the correct syntax coloring.
2. Be sure to close the workspace, if it's open in Eclipse, before copying the files.

This worked with Eclipse Helios.