Macbook booting with wrong keyboard layout.

hello all,
i've got a 15 inch macbook pro with the latest os x. every time i reboot, it resets the keyboard layout to american english even though i preset it to swiss german. this means that i always need to go to the language settings and change it to my layout, which is quite annoying.
any suggestions how to solve this?
thanks a lot in advance and kind regards
jurg

I posted the same question on stackexchange as well: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/111460/macbook-booting-with-wrong-keybo ard-layout

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