Changing preferences to inches, reverts to cm?

Anyone having a problem with changing preferences to Inches from CM and then when I go to page set up it is back in CM??
Now I know I have blonde moments but this one has me thinking that apple missed something or my update is not working properly?
I have tried updating my computer 1st, updating pages 09, etc....
Thanks if you have any info?
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What do you have set for measurements system-wide in System Preferences > International > Formats > Measurement Units (the very bottom of the preference pane)? My guess is it is set to US rather than metric.

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It seems that something is seriously wrong. You may try the following (you may have tried/done some of them already) and see whether it helps:
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