Hi Michael, yeah, difinatly ini is human readable, and as you have users and settings in there it wouldnt be something to do, yet.. But in the future, if you are working on the UI customization stuff, and perhaps create some sort of editor for the settings (Making Brian very happy, RIP) then there could be a switch made.

""""""""Is there anything in particular that you're looking to gain by having the settings stored in XML rather than in .ini format?"""""

At this point, it's just having access to it for my development purposes...(Spoiled with newer tools that can automate xml better than me writing line parsing stuff) As it is now, I am converting it to xml to work with and test.

For future use, the possibilities are much greater for development, being able to tie into other types of services...

At this point, without the third party support (And more my limited knowledge of the current programming requirments) I am pursuing different methods for plugin access and development.