Can't add or delete User Profiles in System Preferences

I'm trying to connect to my school's wireless network, which is now using WPA2 Enterprise encryption and I need to change my User Profile to connect. As far as I can tell, I've done this several times, but my new profile doesn't show up and the old two don't go away (which I have deleted from the 802.1X page).
What do I need to do to get my preferences to work correctly?

Try repairing permissions and ACLs on that user.
The Repair Permissions run from Disk Utility in your Applications doesn't touch anything in any of the user folders, so startup holding command-r keys into your Recovery Volume.
From the menu bar choose Utilities then select Terminal.
At the prompt type resetpassword
Press return
The Password reset utility will launch (do not reset password)
Instead, click your Mac hard drive.
Then from the drop-down select the user account you want to repair. At the bottom of the window, you’ll see an area labeled ‘Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs’. Click the Reset button there.
The process takes a couple of minutes. When it’s done, quit the programs you’ve opened and restart your Mac.

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