Mouse settings don't stay as selected after wake-up

I am having a weird issue with my mouse tracking settings. I want them to be fast (all the way to the right), so when I got my Mac 4 years ago I set them that way.
For a week now they "jump back" to about medium speed after wake up. I have to go back and manually change it back to fast again.
Any idea why the settings are not saved?

Sorry one corrections I am running the latest OS X all my software is up to date

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