Expose Preferences Keep Changing Themselves

I have Active Screen Corners activated for Expose. However the upper left corner keeps unactivating itself. Is there any way for me to track this preference in the system to see what is modifying it?

I'm having this same problem on a dual 1.25 g4 running 10.4.7 - my exposé settings aren't being remembered it seems, much as you have described.
Mine however have a regular pattern to them - it happens after each launch of a game I run on that machine, World of Warcraft. I reset the exposé settings, they work fine, but after I launch and quit the game, they are back to all turned off. I'm sure it has something to do with the way the game overrides regular keyboard commands/bindings. Not that big of a deal, just though I'd throw it in there that it happens on my machine too, and why.
I'll try deleting that .plist file, thanks for the tip.

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