10.6.4 deleted most startup items

Hi there,
I installed 10.6.4 yesterday without any error messages. After the reboot I realized that most of my startup items have vanished. How could that happen?
Does anyone know the physical folder where these items are normanlly stored?
Thx!
Jan

Hi Kappy,
I had programs which were started automatically at login. They were shown in my user profil under the system preferences.
Most of them were active in the background and visible in the menu bar, like "ShoveBox", "Transmit" etc.
I can not find this folder. It seems the whole folder is gone after the update.
Is there a place where things are stored in these cases. There is nothing in the trash.
Message was edited by: JanTon

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