Login issue on mountain lion

When booting from a powered off state on my late 2010 MacBook Pro running Mountain Lion, one of my login accounts (the one that I actually want/need to use) comes up with a question mark and a message that states "update needed" as shown in the attached picture. I can click on this account, enter in the password for the account I want (which is my first and last name) and then the machine seems to login for a bit, and then the account I want access to and my account picture show up as one of the choices and i can log in to my profile normally. Anyone know how to actually do whatever required update the picture i attached is asking for (third account shown in the picture below)? Thanks. I just recently did a clean install of Mountain Lion since I am weird like that, lol

Thanks for the advice, however I followed it and the solution remains unresolved.
I made a copy of the .plist file and pasted it in my documents, went to the directory and put the file in the trash as described.
Upon force reboot I was redirected to the login screen again.
When I rebooted normally, it performed auto login as expected.
After rebooting normally the second time (I did not try this with the force reboot), I returned to the directory you suggested to replace the file with the backup I had copied before. When I returned to the directory, the .plist file had magically manifested without my placing it back. It seems as if the .plist file is autogenerated from some other setting...
Any additional suggestions?
Thanks!

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