Guest User settings bleeding into my admin account

Hi,
I recently enabled Guest User access to test some issues that I was having with my 17" Mac Book Pro running Lion 7.2. After switching back to my admin account, I notice there are some settings that have reverted to the default setting of the Guest User account:
Mail displays messages in conversation form, after I had set it to no longer group by conversation.
I think the trackpad speed has reverted to the default speed.
There may be another setting, but I don't remember what it was.

milocricket,
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