You're right, Shawn..

Whenever VirusScan is stopped, the settings are written to the registry. Whenever it is started, the settings are pulled from the registry. So, yuo have to stop the services then import your settings, then restart the services. Unfortunately, you must have sufficient rights to do this.

Another possibility on changing settings:

If you have autoupgrade set so that it updates from a site you control, you can create your own setup.exe that stops the service, enters your settings, and starts the service. This allows us to make changes to NT machines once a month when we dod the AutoUpgrades because AutoUpgrade runs in the system account.

Brian