is there a way to set up a system so that a user that doesnt have a UID of 0 can be the admin, im looking to make a single user system more secure. its on a cluster (with a shared filesystem) and my goal is that it wont have the required permisions to delete crap.

I realize that in all likeleyhood ill have to name my admin "root" cause thats what many programs require, but if I change roots UID and GID to like 6001:6001 and then go "chown -R root:root /*" do you think my system will be destroyed or more secure?

what I fear most is the proc filesystem, is there a way to mount that so that everyone has write access?

You cant change the UID for root. I acient days of unix (in the seventies i think) the original unix were made. internally it "think" of users as numbers. To improve userfriendlyness, it has a system of usernames, and there coresponding user numbers.
If for example a user tries to open a file, the system checks if the usernumber is allow to open the file, exept if the number is 0. if the number is 0 no check is required.
So if you atempt to change roots usernumber, you will most likely end up with a system, nobody can use.

hmmm, im open to second opinions. but another option im trying to figure out, is if there was a way to disable local root login (but still allow non root users to log in) i would be happy.

mabee some sort of special arguements on the "getty" command or "login" command