Visual Studio 2010 and SharePoint timeouts

I am developing a solution within Visual Studio 2010 for SharePoint 2010.  Once of my eventReceivers creates about 2000 KeyValuePairs, so I get (and would expect with the default timeout of 120) the SharePoint process timeouts when deploying.

(ref: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee471440.aspx)

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\ exists in my environment, but SharePointTools does not.  If I create this, and then the REG_DWORD, it does not seem to have any affect.

I have found another similar registry entry at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0_Config\SharePointTools (it previously existed here), but when I add the Timeout REG_DWORD, it is wiped out when I restart Visual Studio.