Have to constantly reset preferences

I suddenly have to reset my preferences (shift,control,alt) each time I start my CS6 Illustrator (and InDesign and Photoshop) or they crash on start up. At the same time this started, shadows started showing up funky in my Illustrator docs (new and old). What is causing this? I am on a tight deadline for multiple projects and this is holding me up big time.

Macasill,
Does it also happen if no other applications are running?
Here is a list of usual suspects known to disturb Illy in different ways:
Quicktime/iTunes,
Quicken (Widget),
Entourage,
Google Earth,
Zune,
Some Firefox Add-ons,
Spotlight (shortcuts),
Fetch,
Hulu,
Cocktail,
Cinch,
RightZoom,
Synergy
FontExplorer
RightZoom
There are probably others.

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