Hi Sean.
This is an identifed issue. (FYI, I have your open Support case).
The columnsets for the Items, Relationships, and Document views are meant to be used by one server, in its current design, because they have admin objects referenced in their ids and those admin objects are server-specific.
If one wants to publish the same viewset to multiple servers, one can create their copy, but then one needs to open it up for editing, connect to the new server and customize the columnsets to match, *then* publish to the new server.
I'll make sure you're linked up with the correct RFC for this.