MAC OSx Tiger loses connection info

I am running a newly installed Mac OSx Tiger OS on my G5 and have setup Oracle Calendar to connect to the server. The connection is maintained for as long as I have Oracle Calendar open. When I close it, Oracle Calendar reverts to a "new installation" state forgetting the settings just made. Is this a problem/bug with Oracle Calendar or with Tiger? Is there a work around? This is not a problem with other clients (e.g. Windows XP).

Hi
This is not happening on my G4 Powerbook with Tiger. I had Oracle Calendar installed before I upgraded -- not sure if that is relevant. I would look in your home directory in Library/Preferences and pull out any Oracle related preferences and start again. Other than that you could try using Disk Utility in /Applications/Utilities to repair permissions. Finallly if thats no good create a new User in System Preferences/Users and login in as that user and install -- if that works then you know there is some problem with your particular user setup.
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    >>> >> >> >
    >>> >> >> > Jake
    >>> >> >> >
    >>> >> >> >
    >>> >> >>
    >>> >> >>
    >>> >> >
    >>> >> >
    >>> >>
    >>> >>
    >>> >
    >>> >
    >>>
    >>>
    >>
    >>
    >
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