Please don't store .settings as separate files from the layer and call
them *.settings, it is quite dangerous. If you happen to explore the
resources folder of your module while the IDE is running, the IDE will
recognize them as a settings object, find that the settings do not
match the current state of your development build of the IDE, and
quietly write over the CVS file with serialized state! Use e.g.
*.settings_ instead if they need to be outside the layer. In the case
of the Ant module, spent a long time trying to debug a strange problem
and finally found that the source version of my settings was corrupt.

If I recall correctly you were the one to split off these settings--thank
you but please rename them (you would have the list of what modules this
was done for I guess).