Fluffypoopo and how are you going to do that? are you going to outsource a database outside of CDO or run a server that keeps track of all the values constantly? otherwise no there isn't really a way to stop a person from changing it, plus if the person knows what there looking for they can modify all 3... point being if all 3 change or don't exist where's the backup going to be? also giving the programmer the choice to make the decision isn't much better, since anyone can check the interval of the updating time it won't be that hard to sync their changes to the updating interval
