Keychain First Aid Fails

Not remembering a web site login, I opened Keychain Access to look it up and noted that it wasn't storing ANY web site passwords. I ran Keychain First aid which found a problem, but failed to repair my Keychain with the message:
"User differs on ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.security.plist, should be 501, owner is 0
Owner not corrected on ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.security.plist, reason: No such file or directory"
Yet, I can see the "~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.security.plist" file, and have opened it in Omnioutliner. I've already repaired permissions and run Disk Warrior 3.0.3 to no avail; same erroneous error message. Help?

A couple of things to try. Move the ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.security.plist to the trash, but don't delete it. Restart and try Keychain First Aid. If it works, quit the app, and empty the trash. If you have a backup of your system, move the ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain to the desktop, copy over the backup, restart, and try it again. Report back.

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