Can I password protect printer and monitor settings?

I am the computer instructor at an elementary school. One of the teachers has a problem with a student who continually changes her preferred printer, her dispslay options, etc. She is running OS9, and I wondered if there was a way to protect her preferences like there is in OSX. She doesn't want to set up multiple users. Is there any way to do this?
Thanks for any input.

Hi, twirlingelephants. Using a utility such as File Buddy 7.6, which could be run from a CD rather than installed on the Mac(s) in question (installing it where students could use it would be the height of folly), your teacher friend could set the Invisible flag on any files she doesn't want tampered with, including the Monitors control panel, the Chooser, even the whole Control Panels folder. Then those files or folders wouldn't appear at all in the Finder, the Apple menu, etc., even though they were still in place and functioning. The student's access to settings would literally vanish. He might be able to guess what had happened, but unless students are able to install software on the school computers willy-nilly (which certainly shouldn't be true), there wouldn't be anything he could do about it.
Of course the student would probably decide to vent his frustration in some other way, so Don's suggestion of unpleasant consequences is certainly appropriate. But if the miscreant's identity is unknown, diverting his vandalism into some other realm could conceivably make him easier to spot.

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