>>However, HKEY_CURRENT_USER is actually a part of the HKEY_USERS hive if that helps.
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>Hmm. We changed a setting in Word; and looked for where the change was reflected; it was ONLY reflected under HKEY_USER not HKEY_CURRENT_USER but HKEY_CURRENT_USER might give me more help on the user identifier in HKEY_USER
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>thanks.

I assume that you're saying that the information for a specific user, is not being reflected in HKEY_CURRENT_USER, but only in HKEY_USERS. Is that correct? Al I can say is that something's amiss here. What follows is the description of the HKEY_CURRENT_USER key from the Platform SDK:

"Registry entries subordinate to this key define the preferences of the current user. These preferences include the settings of environment variables, data about program groups, colors, printers, network connections, and application preferences. This key makes it easier to establish the current user's settings; the key maps to the current user's branch in HKEY_USERS. In HKEY_CURRENT_USER, software vendors store the current user-specific preferences to be used within their applications. Microsoft, for example, creates the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft key for its applications to use, with each application creating its own subkey under the Microsoft key."