I just wanted to share this post I made at the AutoHotKeys forum:
Control VLC with global hotkeys using the numeric keypad as "media keys".
Unfortunately I don't yet know how to export/import customized hotkey settings, but it's still pretty easy to set up even without that.
It's pretty simple; I'm just hoping I can help some other people too, kantian imperative kinda thinger. =]
Please tell me if you find it useful!
P.S. You can get the script to run automatically on startup by putting a shortcut to the .ahk file in your startup folder. That's "start menu" > "all programs" > "Startup" if you didn't know.