Russell,

I store my settings to a sql type database and I have a table similar to you. I store XML in the memo and do a xmltocurosr() to get the grids settings and cursortoxml() to save the settings. I have not seen any slow downs yet.

>Well, you seem to be saying "how can your structure accomodate so many different possible types of settings." <g> Naturally, I do make use of a memo field!
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>USER_ID          Character     10
>PROPERTY         Character     30
>TYPE             Character      1
>USER_CAN_MODIFY  Logical        1
>PROPERTY_VALUE   Memo           4
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>And I have some GetProperty and SetProperty methods, of course. Works well for me. Yours looked fine, I just wondered if you're keeping other settings, then does this mean a different table for each type of setting or had you created this table solely in regards to this question.
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>>So what does your user_prop table look like?