Registry ACL Modification

I hope this is in the right area...if not I apologize.

I wrote an app that needs to add a few small strings in the registry. The
problem is, when run under the standard "user" rights, I do not have access
to add/remove/modify anything in the registry. It needs to add a few values
into HKEY_CURRENT_USER... but says I do not have access. I found a Microsoft
article on modifying the ACL of the registry using the "SetPerm.bas" file you
can download. I have downloaded it and tried it, but I am afraid that I'm an
idiot when it comes to this. This app is only going to be used on NT based
systems. Here is the article I mentioned:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316440.

My question is this......what method should I use to safetly add values to
the registry for the current logged on user via code, when it says I don't
have access?

I know it can be done, but I'd prefer not to do the "hack" way by blowing
out the permissions and redoing it.

Thank You for your help :)

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