Keyboard and Mouse Settings Keep "resetting"

Ok so I set up my keyboard's F5 to be the Desktop View ( F11 the old way ) and squeezing my mighty mouse, I set to Expose... but every time I do that, it resets itself after like a day or so..
Anyone experience this? I have to go back in and check off the F5 option again, and I have to change my mouse from Button 4, to Expose.
HELP!

I am having the same problem. I have my system preferences setup to synch with my .mac account. The mouse settings keep resetting on both computers I have synched.
The problem seems to have ramped up since the update to 10.5.3. It is now happening every synch.

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Try brand new batteries, if that doesn't fix the issue then you must try this.
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