Excluding Objects w/ Preset?

Hi, I am trying to save my settings using preset, but find that my on/off toggle for the patch is saved as well. i looked in the preset help and it said if nothing is connected to preset, the whole patch interface gets saved. So i tried connecting what I needed connected but ran into some problems. First, it seems when matrixctrl is connected that it still saves the whole interface and not just matrixctrl. also, what if i wanted to save numeric presets? what's to keep an int number box from being mistake by preset as the preset to go to? I think it would be more convenient to have a method to exclude objects from the preset rather than connect everything that needs to be saved. Is this possible?