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I ran "Keychain First Aid" in Keychain to Repair any problems it found. It found none. Now, when I restart my computer, ALL of my Keychain passwords are reset. Why does this happen? And how do I fix it?
Thanks in advance!

I seem to have fixed the problem by creating a new keychain. But for the life of me, I can't figure out why this problem would arise in the first place.
EDIT:
After creating my new keychain and adding new items to it, and then running First Aid to check what would happen (using the Repair instead of Verify), I see that it deleted my login keychain - again. Here's the log:
Repair started
Checking keychain configuration for Gary (user ID=501)
Home directory is /Users/gary
Checked login keychain
Checked password for ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain
Checked settings for ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain
Checked default keychain
Checked keychain search list
No problems found
Repair completed
Why does it do this?
I also found my old keychain, and just re-imported it again. But, this appears to be, well, a very blatantly obvious bug.

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