How can I get Safari 5.0.5 to stop accepting cookies?

I have, since time immemorial, set my Safari preferences to never accept cookies. That partially broke starting with Safari 4.x. In Safari 5.0.5 it simply accepts all cookies and ignores the setting of "never" in preferences. I've tried changing it away from, then back to this setting without success. Is there any way to restore this functionality?

I am one of the many people who have come to these discussions in the last weeks in the hopes of finding an answer to this cookies problem. Yesterday I talked to an Apple phone advisor who told me these forums exist for Apple users to assist each other -- and that Apple personnel don't regularly monitor them. He said he was unaware of the problem, didn't advise using the "Report Bugs to Apple" option in Safari but to go to this link
http://www.apple.com/feedback/safari.html
and report the problem. I did. I don't know if anything is being done about it or not. But perhaps if more people who are having this problem would use the link it might make someone take notice.
Worth a try.

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