I did look at some of the Win32 registry modules, but I can't recall why I ended up not using them.

I am thinking it was because, although the file structure is similar to a Windows registry file, it is different enough to make it incompatible with the available modules, and more complicated than just writing my own parsing subroutine.

Or I may have just been overwhelmed by the module's source code and got too intimidated to try... I honestly can't remember.