Login Window stuck displaying "List of users"

The Login Window app on my PowerBook (OS 10.4.6) suddenly stopped taking changes to preferences. Things like auto-login, displaying the Reboot/Sleep/Shutdown buttons, showing the list of users vs. the user/password prompt, etc. have been changed in the Preference Pane, but upon logout or reboot the changes have no effect. This is really a problem, as I want the login window to display the user/password prompt rather than the default list of users for privacy. I've followed the instructions posted elsewhere for fixing the auto-login problem (boot into single-user mode and delete the appropriate plists/caches), and it had no effect. Any help anyone could render would be appreciated.
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I tried the commands you've listed. Upon checking the com.apple.loginwindow.plist files, I noticed that the changes ARE being made to the file, but loginwindow.app is flat-out ignoring the settings. As for the stuff I tried earlier:
Boot into Single-User Mode
/sbin/fsck -fy
/sbin/mount -uw /
cd /Library/Preferences
rm com.apple.loginwindow.plist
rm com.apple.windowserver.plist
cd /Library/Caches
rm -r *
cd /System/Library
rm Extensions.kextcache
cd /System/Library/Caches
rm -r *
reboot
...and after this had no effect, I deleted the loginwindow plists listed above several times from the Finder to force loginwindow.app to regenerate them.
It seems like my problem has evolved slightly since my first post. At first, changes made in the Accounts preference pane would have no effect on the contents of /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist. Now, the changes ARE made in the file, but loginwindow.app does not heed them. Any ideas?

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