My Mac has Alzheimer's

Hi, sorry if this has been asked before. I can't seem to find any answers.
My Mac does not retain most System Preference settings, some applications do not retain any changes after I close them(ftp program, Cyberduck), Itunes always asks me to confirm the user agreement on startup of the application and Safari won't save any bookmarks after application close.
I have tried to repair disk permissions with Disk Utility - No go.
I have tried using Cocktail to clear system cache and repair permissions. - No go.
Help me please.

Bumping your message isn't going to get an answer any faster and the fact that only 30 minutes passed is annoying. This is a user to user help site and the fact that you haven't been answered means that no one who has a clue what's up has read your post yet. I have a few suggestions.
I suspect that there's a rights issue involving your some part of your home directory or some files are munged. Let's start out by navigating to your home directory, selecting your Library folder, and selecting Get Info from the File menu of Finder. That bottom section is the privileges and there's a list of three things, your account name should be at the top and be listed as Read & Write. If not, change it and then click on the lock to close it. Repeat this with your Preferences folder that's inside the Library.
If that doesn't fix it we'll assume that some pref files got munged. Each time you find a program that messes up like this, quit the program, look for its plist in the Preferences folder (inside your Library) and delete it. Start the program to force the creation of a new plist. If this doesn't solve your problem, come back.

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