Different settings for different projects

Hi,
I'm wondering why it is that Final Cut Pro cannot keep different AV setups and scratch disks for different projects. I am working with several different projects on my computer. Some in PAL, some in NTSC, some capturing from Betacam, others from DV, and all having different capture settings, including different scratch disks.
Every time I open a different project, I have to reset every one of these things...you'd think it was an incredibly basic thing to have these things "remembered" by project, so that you didn't have to reconfigure everything every time you switched (even with making an Easy Setup it's a pain). Or maybe it IS incredibly basic and I'm just missing something?
Thanks in advance for shedding light on this subject!
Nayeli
17 PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.4) 1GB RAM
17 PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9) 1GB RAM

Thanks for the response...that is a good suggestion, I might try that if it turns out to be quicker to switch user than to switch settings each time.... I'll have to think through the implications, like permissions and such, to make sure I don't dig the hole deeper. But I like the idea because I do need to digitize to different drives as they get disconnected from my system and travel to different places, heheh...
This is something I've hated about FCP for years and years...today I was thinking about it and thought, it can't be, it's just such a basic thing, available in so many applications...I must be wrong and there must be a way to do it that I don't know about! I mean, for me it's enough to want to take the Pro off the end of Final Cut Pro. For people who use this tool in the industry I'd say it's almost a must-have. I mean, you can work without it, but it IS a big pain!
In any case, thanks for your help!
17 PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4) 1GB RAM

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