Changing Default Web Browser After Reboot

Hello,
I am using Webkit as my default browser and every time I reboot the machine, it keeps changing my default web browser back to Safari.
I have used the settings in the preferences pane in Safari and applied the changes and after reboot it still occurs. I have read somewhere (I do not remember what website) that FileVault has something to do with resetting my saved settings. I do have FileVault enabled on my system.
Thanks for your help,
supersmooth

I would like to advise anyone reading this post that after some more researching, I have found several other posts in different forums that deals with this topic.
Although the suggestions within the other posts did not work, I did try them and had no resolve.
Here are the other posts within the links posted below;
http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-72578.html
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=531812
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8587195
I hope that anyone reading this post and the other provided above can use them to help shed some light on this issue or possible resolve it.
Once again, thank you for your time,
supersmooth

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