I urgently need the ability to be able to turn off the security preference while having other windows open and to be able to keep this window open while I work on the other windows.
The reason...
I think that would work if you had some users with more privileges and the warning was signifcant enough (ie you had to okay it). It would just mean adding users as generally speaking at present most of my clients just have everyone and his dog signing in under the administrator login.
On your other point regarding the audit trail, I will start another thread as the existing audit trail is not very helpful.