Upgrade/date Blender And Keeping User Settings

Hi there,

Blender just overwrites all my settings, scripts/plugins. How to avoid this is my question?
I found several ways for different versions. Perhaps the elephant in the room but I know not
of a single way for each version to keep these user settings.

So far I’m really loving Blender. See what I’ve done so far:



[muscle and details such as hair, wrinkels, teeth etc will be done after updating to 2.66 with dynatopo]