My region keeps trying to revert back to the UK?

I am running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5
I live in the US and bought this mac in the US but auto transferred from my UK PC. Now I cannot get the region or currency to remain in US dollars. I have been into System Preferences and changed the region to the US which automatically changes the currency to US dollars in the currency drop down menu. However as soon as I navigate away from SystemPreferences/Formats/Language&Text it reverts back to British Pounds.
I am trying to run a business in the US but my accounting software is using £ for all my invoices because it takes the currency from the system preferences.
Cheers, Matt

Problems such as yours are sometimes caused by files that should belong to you but are locked or have wrong permissions. This procedure will check for such files. It makes no changes and therefore will not, in itself, solve your problem.
First, empty the Trash.
Triple-click the line below to select it, then copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C):
find ~ $TMPDIR.. \( -flags +sappnd,schg,uappnd,uchg -o ! -user $UID -o ! -perm -600 -o -acl \) 2> /dev/null | wc -l
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). The command may take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign (“$”) to appear.
The output of this command, on a line directly below what you entered, will be a number such as "41." Please post it in a reply.

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