My settings keep resetting no matter what I try

I have been having a couple problems with my settings. It has happened a few times already, this time it started with iTunes, and it started like i just reinstalled, then it moved to Safari, and caused the setting to go back to factory setting. Now I had deleted some extra stuff on my laptop so i had to restart because i am running filevault, once I restart, everything was fine, and my setting were ok, but then I put my laptop to sleep, and when i woke it up everything went back to factory settings, all my preferences in applications and overall on the desktop. I am not really sure what to do? does anybody else know?
Powerbook G4 1.67 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

well I havent changed my username ever since i started using my laptop, and i finally figured out not to use filevault but now i have to first free up some disk space so I can turn it off, because supposedly it needs just as much space open as much as it takes up. So if I havent changed my username do you know what else it could be?

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