Hey Znote,
I checked the svn of znoteAAC and thought of a potential solution to the storagevalue issue just randomly (posted 24 days ago.)
Perhaps you could use globalevents onthink system that queries the database for new storagevalues that need to be set (sent by the website), then checks if the playersname is online and if it is uses the lua function rather then a query or something similar.
That is exactly what I intend to do later. Creating a communication script which allows the AAC to do live queries through the game. But its not going to come on the next releases.