Client Config Request Event retention off by default?

We've got a new 7.1 Hierarchy setup and I started noticing that the Client Config Requests were not being written to the database. All functionaity was fine but these events were not being held. After looking around the console for 30 minutes, a teammate found an article in the KB 

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH40691&actp=search&viewlocale=en_US&searchid=1375966880665

That discusses the CoreSettings.config key, EnableNSEventLog, might be set to false. So I checked out Child SMP's and sure enought it was. The parent was TRUE but the children were FALSE. So my question is why? We use that data point for many things in Altiris 6.x. It is disabled by default simple because if cuts down the event load and that some customers might just never need it?

Any thoughts would be appreciated!

Thank you

DC