Application cannot write to Library/Preferences

I have a Sling Box and have been having problems with the Sling Media Player not remembering it's preferences (i.e. directory and favorites not stored). I have gone round and round with the Sling Media support and they tell me the problem is with my Library/Preferences folder. Apparently my Mac is not letting the Sling Media Player application write to the folder. Has anybody ever heard of this sort of thing? If so, is there a way to fix it?
Thanks!

+chmod -N Preferences+ solved the problem - thank you! It is great to have my computer back.
Here were the wacky ACLs on the Preferences file:
drwx------+ 172 Robert Robert 5848 Aug 16 10:29 Preferences/
0: group:everyone deny addfile,delete,add_subdirectory,deletechild,writeattr,writeextattr,chown
1: group:everyone deny delete
All of my other computers have an ACL on the Preferences file but the ACL is:
drwx------+ 79 Robert Robert 2686 Aug 16 12:38 Preferences
0: group:everyone deny delete
I would love to know how the wacky ACL got there. Any ideas?
-Robert

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