Please Help with Registery Problem

[Gandor]

text1.text="test.test"

SaveSettingByte HKEY_CURRENT_USER, _
"Software\Configuration", "test", text1.text

when it writes the dword value i get this

t.e.s.t...t.e.s.t.

i need it to set the value like this

test.test

what am i doing wrong