Login Items not launching

I have a strange problem where if I reboot my Mac, any menu bar icons I have launching on startup load. This involves iStat as well as the battery meter. The only icons I get are Airport and Spotlight.
I have checked for the Divxnetwork.prev file as listed at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307000 but I don't have that file.
Any items under Login Items in Accounts do launch, but anything menu bar related doesn't. I've trashed various preference plists such as com.apple.Menuxxx as well as login item plists but still this problem remains.
Any ideas?

Open SysPrefs > General and unselect the option to "restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps." Then, when you log out make sure and unselect the option to "reopen windows when logging back in." You can quickly do this latter by tapping the space bar.

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This happened to me from an out-the-box mac without any 3rd party software installed which makes me think this is a mavericks issue as opposed to anything else installed after.
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Hidden login items not working

Hello I currently have both messages and email open at startup. I wanted to make them open without opening a window so i selected "hide" in login items; however, for some reason this does not work. I got email to hide but messages wouldn't. But now messages will hide and email will not.

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New/Modified login items not saving

Within the System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login Items (for Admin user)....
I am trying to add an application to open upon login. However when I add it (both with the Lock unlocked or locked)... and then reboot it doesn't save.
I set the new login items, and even remove an old one... exit System Preferences. All appears saved when I go back into it (meaning it sticks).
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I go back into system preferences pane and the changes are no longer present. So it isn't really actually saving my changes.
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Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginitems.plist
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My wonderful imac os x - tiger 10.4.7 opens 3 items (safari, mail and ichat) that are not in the startup items list.
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The computer's main "/Library/Preferences" folder can also contain a "loginwindow.plist" file, but any items listed in that file will open at login for all users. "Admin" privileges will usually be required to remove or make changes to this file.
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Mine does the same thing. I read in a discussion that Apple had told someone it is designed to work that way.
Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.
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