Beginner emacs / SLIME / ACL / ASDF question

Hello,

How do I modify the ASDF *central-registry* variable, so that the new
value is loaded each time I start Emacs?

I'm still fairly new to LISP and very new to the whole emacs / LISP
interaction. It's an intriguing idea, but I'm not yet fully
comfortable with it.

I am running Windows XP, and recently installed LispBox0.7 using
ACL-express, from the "Practical Common Lisp" page:
http://www.gigamonkeys.com/lispbox/

*central-registry* defaults to *default-pathname-defaults*, which is
somehow fed the default LispBox installation directory: C:\program
files\lispbox-0.7. Instead, I would like to specify where to keep my
".asd" files. In fact, I am very comfortable with Visual Studio's
".sln" files, and would prefer if, similarly, each project were
contained in it's own directory with its own.asd file (and without the
need for a *central-registry*), but based on my understanding, I do not
think this is how ASDF works.

l cannot figure out how to change *central-registry*, short of
hand-editing it each time I open my environment. I'm uncertain where
this value gets set. I believe it is after Emacs loads, and so it is
not appropriate to set this in an ".emacs" file. I am uncertain if
ASDF is loaded by SLIME, or ACL. To make matters more complicated, I
have 3 "asdf.lisp" files on my system, and I do not know which is being
loaded by my system. In any case, I tried hand editing the asdf.lisp
(defvar *central-registry*...) statement in all 3 files (which seems
like a terrible way to configure my system, but I don't know what the
standard way to configure this is supposed to be... ), but this has not
made the slighest difference.

I'm not at all familiar with Usenet either, and I apologize if I've
gone about posting this in the wrong way. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks,
Matt

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