Running two copies of MAX with different preferences?

Hi all,

Because of different kinds of tasks I want them to perform I'd like to run two instances of MAXMSP along side each other. When changing preferences and after rebooting the program I see that the two copies seem to share the same prefences window (not while running the program though). That's because they probably share the file maxpreferences.maxpref. Is there a way to have the two instances of the application have different preferences files (but keep the rest of the preferences for for example sound-cards and such)?

Actually I'd like to be able to assign the same settings per program instance that you can adjust in the "standalone" object inspector.

Thanks, Hans.