Loginwindow.plist gets corrupted after a restart

Hello,
I have an installer package that, aside from installing components, modifies the loginwindow.plist such that it adds entries for my components. The installer works fine on Tiger and Panther OSes btw.
However, on Leopard, the loginwindow.plist file gets corrupted after a restart. As a result, the components which I have added in the plist do not run automatically - rendering them useless to the user unless it is manually launched/run.
Deleting the file and installing my own loginwindow.plist file solves the problem but this isn't an ideal solution.
Is the loginwindow issue a known OS issue? Has there been a change with the loginwindow.plist format for Leopard such that modifications need to follow a certain text encoding? Can anyone provide solutions as to how this issue can be avoided?

The .plist is in your user library.
Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist.
After you remove it, you need to restart.

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