This q&a describes my exact problem very precisely, but the answers given seem to be crap. At least I learned that something called GPResult exists (it didn't quite work when I tried it as shown), and one of the answers gives the trust values that correspond to each numerical value setting:
http://superuser.com/questions/414097/how-to-view-all-ie-trusted-sites-when-security-settings-are-managed
This site also didn't work out as hoped, it seems to be from a remote seat management perspective, but I began learning that what I need would be under a key named EscDomains:
http://nefaria.com/2009/10/adding-trusted-sites-for-ie-via-the-registry/
There was another google hit, that I've lost the list to, which gave me the idea of just using the search function in regedit to find all EscDomains keys and viola, it gave me the list of trusted sites.