Unable to delete Login Items - they come back (can't add either)

I have a couple of items listed in my Login Items from applications no longer there but every time I go back into System Preferences they are still there. I can see that they can't be found as they show as kind:Unknown rather than application.
Similarly I tried to add an application and while it shows on exit of system preferences it always reverts to the same state next time I look.

I'm not sure about "Leopard", but in "Tiger", "login items" could be configured from at least four different places, but the ones that appear in the "Accounts" pref pane were the ones listed in the user's "~/Library/Preferences/loginwindow.plist" file.
The symptom of removed "login items" returning could have other causes, but combined with the inability to persistently add your own new ones suggests that that file may be corrupt or have become locked in some way. Try removing it, then reconfiguring your "login items".

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