User settings revert to defaults on re-publishing application

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If I provide a user with the ability to change some settings in a VS2005
solution using my.settings and then republish the application to fix a bug
or add a new feature the settings get lost due to the change in version
numbers and revert back to my default project settings. I believe the user
settings are saved in a folder which has the application version in its path.

Is there a simple way to get around this or do I need to store all user
settings in a database?


Thanks