Dashboard widgets keep reappearing after restart!

Hi all.
Every time I reboot my mac, a series of widgets keep reappearing in my dashboard that I previously removed. It's just a couple iterations of the calculator and stickies. But every time I delete them, after reboot they come back.
I tried deleting my dashboard prefs but for some reason this didn't help!
Any ideas?

HI Scott,
To remove a widget:
To open Dashboard, press the Dashboard key.
If your keyboard doesn’t have a Dashboard key, press Fn-F12. If your keyboard doesn’t have an Fn key, press F12.
Click the Open + button to open the widget bar.
Click Manage Widgets.
Do one of the following:
To remove a widget’s name from the widget bar, deselect it in the list.
To remove a widget from your computer, click its Remove - button, and then click OK. Widgets that are preinstalled with Mac OS X don’t have Remove buttons.
Carolyn

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