where are gnome-volume-control settings stored?

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday mindspring com>]

  i was curious about where gnome-volume-control stores
its current settings.  i noticed in my home directory
the subdirectory

  .gconf/apps/gnome-volume-conmtrol/OSS.../23-1

inside of which i found a number of XML files corresponding
to settings, but those don't *appear* to immediately reflect
changes i make with the app, so i'm suspecting those settings
are still stored elsewhere.

  short of ripping open the code, any hints?  particularly
command-line versions of those same config programs?

rday