A place to store user settings in Sharepoint, except for profiles

Question

Are user profiles the right place to store things like the number of items per page in a selected custom grid item? (I can save it in the view, but it will not be for the user this way).

First of all, I wanted to save these settings in user profiles, but there are problems with access rights for programmatically creating user profile properties, which you need to either grant "User Profiles" permission to each user in SSP, or you must run the application pool under the domain user, not NETWORK SERVICE . Both scenarios are unrealistic for me, so now I am looking for another way to store such settings "for each user".

Thanks!

Edit: Now I am considering an ASP.NET profile mechanism with an additional database for storing custom properties.

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