GMail IMAP - Mail won't remember my settings

For some reason Mail won't remember my settings on how to handle mail.
I selected all of the recommended IMAP client settings that GMail recommended, but for some reason, Mail seems to keep forgetting it. Each time I go back to see the settings, they're back to the original default settings.
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78892&topic=12761
Any ideas on what's going on?

Hmm, did you do an upgrade to Leopard? If so, perhaps the permissions are not correct. You can try repairing permissions on your ~/Library/Mail folder or even deleting it altogether and reconfiguring from scratch. If you're using IMAP, all of your messages should be on the server, so you shouldn't lose any e-mail trying this.

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