[Dygear]

If your editing the user's environment then this is queryable though the vb conditional system. So, if your making it a user custom field, if your setting a user group for that user or anything of that nature then you can use this data inside of a vb conditional, and display data accordingly.

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I'm sorry, when I read your post, it was not quite clicking on what you where trying to do.

Yes, a database would be hands down the best option for allowing the user to edit the settings in real time. However you do this is up to you, I would recommend a separate database table that you will store your data in. Then once you have your table set up you can do a simple JOIN from one table into another and do a GROUP BY. Very simple to do, I'm sorry for not understanding you earlier. I was very sleepy and I did not read you whole post.