Shoutbox

Hey guys,
I'm looking for a little help, regarding the best way to save persistent settings in a script.  I've been messing around with various different methods all day, and have been having no luck with them.
I started off using the registry, but that just turned buggy once I implemented multiple users.  After that I've tried ini files, and xml files, with little success.
Ideally I'd like to use something neat and tidy, such as xml, but going over things earlier I reallly didn't understand what I was doing, and don't wanna use code like that.  I've been reading the msn pages and stuff, but didn't help much, and I don't want the code if I don't understand it fully, cos I'd really rather learn it a bit better.

so basically, does anyone have any recommendations on good working methods of saving settings.  All I want atm is 2 strings and a bool for 2 seperate users, but I'm hoping to use many more later, once I've ironed out the problems.
Cheers guys,
Leroux