Nested Arrays

So I'm building a new site for an existing site and one of the things
I can't change is the database tables (because that would make my life
easier).

The user table is set up how cakephp likes its. The user_meta table is
set up as such:

meta_id, user_id, key, value

So I have some users with 40-50 entries in the meta table while others
only have 3 or 4.

Then I do pr($user) I get this:

Array
(
[User] => Array
(
[ID] => 5
[user_login] => testwriter
[user_pass] => $P$Bq.
[user_nicename] => testwriter
[user_email] => test1@test1.com
[user_url] =>
[user_registered] => 2009-07-14 19:34:39
[user_activation_key] =>
[user_status] => 0
[display_name] => testwriter
)

[Metax] => Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[umeta_id] => 48
[user_id] => 5
[meta_key] => comment_shortcuts
[meta_value] => false
)

[1] => Array
(
[umeta_id] => 49
[user_id] => 5
[meta_key] => admin_color
[meta_value] => fresh
)

[2] => Array
(
[umeta_id] => 50
[user_id] => 5
[meta_key] => wp_capabilities
[meta_value] => a:1:{s:6:"author";b:1;}
)
)
)

I omited a lot of the metas just cause they would take forever to
list. My question is what is a good way to access this data in a view?
I can see user ID's by doing:

echo $user['User']['ID']

but how would I get a specific metadata? (the order is not the same
for each user so I can't just use an array index)

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