History and Cache no longer working in Safari

Is anyone else finding that their copies of Safari will no longer keep a history of sites and pages visited? As soon as I quit Safari, my History is completely blank.
Also, I find that the Cache folder in my Library always remains empty.
I can't find any settings in Safari Preferences that can toggle these functions.
Since we are no longer allowed to post any new topics in the Safari Forum, I am posting it here.
Griff

It's possible that your whole system is suffering from some sort of cache or disk corruption. Are you having any other issues? Even if not I would think the next step would be to do the first two steps as listed in the following FAQ:
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/repairprocess.html
Other than that the only thing I can think of would be corrupt Safari preference files. While trashing them may solve the problem you would lose all your bookmarks and any other preferences in the process.
Did you by any chance accidentally select "reset Safari" in the Safari menu?

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