Is there a way to give a person admin access but not allow them access to the control bar or the admin menu?  I know this sounds like a silly question but we're migrating from catalook to ASPDotNetStoreFront and have found out in the process that a user must have admin priviliges on the site to administer the store.  Hence my question.  We do not want to give the store administrators full admin access to the website if at all possible ... Is what I'm asking possible?

You were right on with the db trick for hiding the admin menu.  Hiding the toolbar seems a bit trickier though.  The control panel is in a div but i'm not sure how to make it only display for host users from the ascx file.  Could you please expound on that suggestion?

Visible="<%User.IsSuperUser%>" or somthing to that affect. My understanding is that the userInfo object is loaded automatically by the core on each page load. There is a property called IsSuperUser. I haven't tested this particular case, but I have used these "tokens" in skins before.