Custom Power Settings do not stick in Leopard

In the Energy Saver, if I specify any custom settings for power management, they will stick only so long as I'm actively using the "Custom" Profile. If I switch to any of the other built-in profiles, relaunch system preferences, and return to the custom profile, all my custom settings will be lost. Again, as long as I stick to only using the Custom profile, the settings will stick, but if I change away from it, they are all erased.
Is this a new "feature" with Leopard, or a bug? It should be easy for anyone to test. Simply go to Energy Saver, change any of the power settings, then under "Optimization", select any of the built-in profiles. Close System Preferences and open it again, reselect "Custom" under Optimisations, and see if your custom settings have been reset.

I also have this issue, but perhaps slightly different - when I wake my MBP from sleep, it will wake in only the Custom settings, no matter how or what setting it went to sleep in. Same goes for restarts - it will only restart in the Custom setting - it ignores what Energy Saver setting it went to sleep in.
I began to notice it after updating from 10.5.1 to 10.5.2 - the recent 10.5.3 hasn't solved the problem at all.

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Thanks for reply. I can't obtain a screenshot at the moment, but the MAX display is a standard diagnostic I've seen on other occasions. Select a COM port in 'Configuration', and the "Port Settings' tab at the bottom has 'Conflict' added. The screen area above shows two columns of 'Settings', one from MS Windows, the other from MAX. These columns disagree in (for example) speed or flow control. Pressing 'Validate' aligns the two, 'conflict' disappears, 'Save' at top of screen appears to save correctly, and everything's fine. Except that the application this setting relies on still has a communication problem, and if you restart MAX the screen display resets to how I described above!
Re-install or repair of NI software does not fix it, nor does re-install of USB drivers. A corrupt data file on this machine would fit the observed evidence - are you able to point me to all the files that MAX may write? A corrupt MS Windows Registry entry might do it also, I guess. Do you know of any tools for checking or fixing such problems? The problem was triggered by a clumsy cleanup of installed NI software that was aborted partway through. The system is installed with a customer making a clean install of everything difficult and we are right at the point of having to write an unattractive workaround that uses a lower level serial interface to allow us to use NI Spy to eke out the required functionality.
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For some reason when I restore the default settings for the energy saver settings, the settings go back to a custom setting I set months prior of Display Sleep at 1 minute.
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i had one hunch - that it might have something to do with the file of same name but with ~orig at the end (see image below). should i remove the other file as well?
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Custom Import settings (MP3) not working?

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Photoshop and CS6 Epson Page Settings do not stick

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Ed,
I noticed the same thing with the margins, however, as I use mostly large sheet sizes (I had the paper curl of rolls) that does not affect the lack of a sticky setting for "sheet" when I save a preset.
I had three conversations this week with Epson Technical Support. The last one being today with Ron who took control of my desktop and found out for himself exactly what I was saying. He then spoke to others in his department and came back with the response, "apparently this is an issue we are aware of and it will be fixed." "When," I asked. He didn't know and said to just keep checking for an update their drivers page.
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Ed

Mail printing orientation settings do not stick

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I figured this out and am pasting the answer, borrowed from another user on these forums, below:
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SD override settings do not stick

I've had my 2 HD DVRs for several months now, and believe myself to be prretty familiar with most of the settings and capabilities.
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I agree with you about preferring the SD Override set to OFF, and that is the way I have had mine set up for over three years. I have never experienced losing the SD setting like that, and I have temporarily changed it many times just to see what would happen, because a number of people have complained about it and I wanted to see if I could reproduce the problem. No luck.
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2) Do you have a home theater system? If so, is the HDMI from the DVR connected to it and then to the TV, or directly to the TV? I am pretty sure that many of the people that experience this problem have the HDMI connection to the home theater box, and for some reason are unable to get the home theater receiver to do the HDMI handshake to result in a 720p or 1080i agreement.
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4) The DVRs default to a 480i setting for SD when the HDMI negotiation can't agree (at least I think that is how it works). Is there possibly any setting in your TVs that would affect the HDMI negotiation? I have never found one in my Sony TV, but every manufacturer seems to want to do things differently, maybe yours does.
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Advanced Settings do not stick!!!

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IMG 1.6.2, Build 08.58
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When I create a new power profile, I go through all the 5 steps, but afterward no new profile exist. I only see the default 5 ones from Lenovo PM.
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It sounds to me that the two power managers are conflicting with each other. Try to make your custom power settings inside of the Lenovo Power Manager.
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Thank you for being a part of the Lenovo Family,
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