Need help with accessing local security policy

I need to be able to access a number of settings in the local security policy.

More specifically, account settings such as password age, lockout count, password history, lockout duration, etc.

I need to be able to retrieve these settings, and change them, if necessary.

I cannot seem to find settings for the majority of these items in the registry, so I will probably have to access and or change them directly from VB.

Any help with this issue is GREATLY appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Don't know if this will help, but it might give you an idea:

http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/..._policies.html

This may help too:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/132958