Hai, I go for the debian way to. Something complete diferrent, but Windows has centralized settings (user.dat/system.dat) you cannot simple copy a program to a other system without knowing the complete settings in the resource files.
When I program software (I'm a Win32 programmer that maintains a network based on a Linux File Server (Debian ofcourse) ) I always use the *.ini files, because user can add/remove/change settings much more easely. Ries