All settings lost after startup

hello,
unfortunatly my pb keeps losing all settings(mailaccounts, bookmarks, dock etc.). after i set everthing as it was before it disappeared again.
anyone knows what to do?
thanks

I sounds like you may be setting up prefs/settings for one account and logging on another account, but not quite. Any chance you lost, deleted, or misplaced your Home folder?
Read the Apple kbase Article:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302150
Do you have file vault turned on?
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