*pokes head out of the Fog of the Real World, and speaks*
FWIW, I wound up just creating a character called "DO NOT DELETE" and entered all of the character class draggables in that character. Then I saved the character to an XML file just to be safe. In the short term I just dragged whatever I needed from the DO NOT DELETE character to other new characters as they were being generated. Eventually I created a module for them, and was able to copy over the XML from the character data to the module data with minimal putzing about with the XML.
*Crawls reluctantly back into the Fog...*