I can't turn on keychain in System Preferences

Very odd behavior. I first installed Mavericks at a time where, with some time left in the Installation, I had to leave. When I got back, everything was ready. I never passed through an iCloud keychain initialization phase. I tried to turn on the Safari preference, but it told me to go to iCloud preferences. When it opened, the box next to "keychain" is unchecked. I click it, and it turns gray, not blue like the other options. And when I go back to it, it's unchecked again.
I followed some hints found here and eventually figured out a way to get to the process of the 4-digit authentication and so on. So I went to iCloud prefs, and keychain is still not activated. No check mark. But Safari now asks if it should store my passwords. And it fills them out.
Do I need to reinstall Mavericks? I'm baffled.

Reset the SMC.
Barry

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Background: Macbook air OS X 10.9 Mavericks (just updated), but changed my Apple ID just after that.
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