General preferences do not save

Hi everyone! This is driving me crazy!
I have Lion installed in my Mac BookAir, and I have started having problems since the last 2 or 3 days.
The main one is that every time I restart or turn on the computer, about 10 applications are auromatically loaded with some windows.
I tried to change the general preferences, unticking the "Restore windows when quitting...", but it looks like the new preferences are not saved. When I close and reopen the system preferences, it comes back to the original situation, with the ticked box and 10 applications, 10 documents and 10 servers selected.
I have tried to change another feature in that pane, like the highlighting color to something different of the original blue, and the same happens. Once closed and reopened again, the old settings appear again.
I have also tried to turn the SAVE APPLICATION STATE folder to only read, or only specific (application) subfolders... it worked for the specific subfolder, but it keeps on opening the 10 applications when rebooted. Very annoying.
Also that I noticed in Safari is that it has stopped keeping track of the history of sites visited.
Can Anyone tell me what to do? Is it me? Is it Lion? Help!!!!
RGB

Hi,
I have already transferred all data from the old user to the new one, with my brother's help, who is a very smart guy and a highly skilled help-desk man.
I had almost no issues with the transferring (I did transfer all the email accounts, browsers bookmarks, itunes,...).
The discussion you are directing me to... it's about freezing cursors? I guess there's a mistake... you were absolutely right saying that the fix would come creating another user account. No problems with this new user account, so far.
Thanks for everything,
Ramon

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