Loss of preferences on startup

I have a 1 year old iBook with 35G available in the HD. I rarely turn off my laptop, I just let it sleep. However when I do turn it off, when it starts up I lose all my Mail Preferences, browser homepages and bookmarks. I don't lose any data just the settings. Any ideas? Thanks
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

seaseansean,
Have you tried to do your normal maintenance like verify disk?
Find your OS X Tiger disk, insert in iBook, restart
When you have the chimes hold down the C key and let it boot from the CD
In the Installer choose File/Disk Utility
Run Verify Disk and see if the Disk is having issues. If so then run Disk Repair and then reboot
JTS

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