How do I stop Visual Studio .Net from auto saving project files in
C:\Document Settings\...blah, blah, blah...?

How frickin' annoying is that! Grrr.

Think I answered my own question...from MSDN:

"When the project is opened, copies of the project files are stored on your
local computer. Before executing a build command, Visual Studio replaces the
project files stored on the server with the edited files located in your
local directory."

That is, the VSWebCache folder under C:\Documents and Settings\...folder.
Essentially it's a temporary location prior to building the web app.

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