For some reason my test forum has a drop-down with three choices for "Automatically Detect DST settings" and "DST always on" "DST always off". It must be a version difference but it seems like those two options you have have been combined in to one (I guess it makes no sense to select "automatic=yes" and also select on or off).
In any case, I think:
Code:
SELECT username, userid from user
WHERE (options & 64)
should tell you who has "Automatically detect DST" set to yes, and
Code:
SELECT username, userid from user
WHERE !(options & 128)
should tell you who has the other option set to "No"
As for making them permanent, I think if you edit the modifyoptions_timezone template to take out the options that might do it. Then the only issue will be to make sure they default to the values you want, which I'm not sure how to do. I suppose you could just replace the radio buttons with hidden fields, but there might be some other way to set the default for those.