>Bruce-
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>>2) Registry
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>It occurs to me that the registry may not be the best place in the long run...since that seems to be going away with Windows 2000.

Well, in that case I'll be in great shape, since I don't use it for user preferences :) But it seems as though abruptly removing it will cause many difficulties for many applications, so there must be some analogous replacement for it, at least...