Energy System Preferences NOT SAVING...

I'm trying to set my computer to wake at a certain time. i've checked the box and entered the time/date i want the computer to start up in system settings, then LOCK the changes.
when i go back to system settings a few seconds later, my settings are not saved and the lock is UNLOCKED (without me having to unlock it, enter my admin info, yada, yada, yada).
what gives?

If Carolyn's suggetion doesn't work...
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), it will try to repair your Disk Directory while the spinning radian is happening, so let it go, run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then Trash these 2 files...
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.AutoWake.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist
Reboot & set it up again.

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