The drupal hosting system that we are currently using prevents us from making any changes to civicrm.settings.php which I find is sometimes necessary or at least the most sensible solution in certain situations. (One example is to set domain IDs when using Domain Access.) I believe the file is regenerated regularly so changes wouldn't last long anyway. I am hoping that someone who knows what they're doing can suggest an elegant way that I could put any code meant for civicrm.settings.php in another file elsewhere, preferably on the site level for multisite situations.
Thanks!