Export the entries
Now you got a new file in your folder called applets_dump

Open that file
search and replace the "int" numbers for view and remember to not overwrite
I did replace
"<int>4<" with "<int>5<"
"<int>2<" with "<int>4<"
"<int>5<" with "<int>2<" (here it ends for swapping 2<->4)
"<int>3<" with "<int>5<"
"<int>1<" with "<int>3<"
"<int>5<" with "<int>1<"

That is a two step turn 1->3; 2->4; 3->1; 4->2
do this with whatever editor you want, I used vim

using vim
press ":" (colon)
and enter
for the first change
the line should look like this
after hitting the second time ":" (colon) you can recover the last command by "arrow-up" key and replace the 4 with 2 and 5 with 4.... and so on.

when you are done open up the command prompt again but enter an "x" instead of the "%s/....", looks like this
now back on your shell you need to load the file back to gconf
and restart home
this will move shortcuts and widgets only