I've got a slew of shortcuts that I want to share with some folks. All the shortcuts are XML based... while I could do the XCOPY approach that overwrites previous shortcuts they may have created. Is there an easier way to merge my shortcuts into theirs?

For templates, I'd recommend putting custom templates into a separate folder in the template list.  That way you can export the entire folder and import it on new machines.  If you have multiple people sharing templates, I'd recommend a structure like:

Shared

-- Andrew

-- Brandon

And each developer that's sharing templates puts their shared templates in their folder.  That way you don't have to worry about naming conflicts.  You may get expansion conflicts, but I don't know of any good ways around that.

No idea on the shortcut side.  I haven't dealt with sharing those yet.

Duh... I can't believe I didn't think about that. My bad. Thanks Brandon