user defined settings via the admin

having an application specific settings.py is a nice idea, in our
world.

In the real world websites seem to be managed by non-technical
people... and ultimately we're not just building these applications
for technologically "gifted" people. Settings should be defined with
the admin for certain things... how many blog items or gallery images
would you like per page? this shouldn't require a call to "IT support"
or granting someone server access to change these settings when they
wish (then call IT support when they screw it up)

what are our options to grant admin based settings? Obviously a model
called settings with perhaps it's own admin template to only allow/
show a single entry into this model/db is possible. But should it
really warrant an additional database call every time the page is
loaded to grab the settings(lets ignore caching for the moment)? How
about an xml file that is editable by the admin? seems like a valid
option to have a config.xml associated with a project and to have the
admin site access to it, i presume a feature like this would require a
hook into the admin site.

any input, ideas, experiences?

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