I cannot change the persona on my laptop! I've tried, but the new persona only stays on while I'm online. It's not being saved or something. What's going on?

About a month or so ago, I did get a nasty piece of malware called SystemCheck on this laptop, but I believe I've gotten rid of it. God knows I've scanned the laptop a million times over and it's come up clean (using both Spybot and Malwarebytes).
Prior to this malware, I had no problem changing the persona and being able to keep the new one. Now I can't. Is this SystemCheck still haunting me?
Here are the specs for my Laptop:
XP-SP3; Compaq Evo N610c; 1.00 GB of RAM
I can't find any troubleshooting guide for this issue.

Hi DawnStorm,
You should look at the article [[Preferences are not saved]]. It could be the Firefox is just unable to write to the prefs file.
Hopefully this helps!

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