I agree with you 100% on that Tolwyn. It's just that you'll notice that once again the problem is with hiding stuff that the player shouldn't be touching rather than with forcing him to use anything.
Simple fact is that if you lock a button you then get 5 posts saying "This button doesn't work. What does it do anyway?" 
well, my point was actually that mods should have some control over the launcher adding/removing certain options
And certain options should be set by default (and not touched by the user), like specular lightning values:
http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,44897.msg915807.html#msg915807
