My Trackpad speed and Highlight Color keep reseting to their defaults after EACH restart.

My Trackpad speed and Highlight Color keep reseting to their defaults after EACH restart. I'm running OS 10.8.2. I had other problems with a previous admin account, so I created a new one, in which I'm having this problem, and deleted the old user acnt.
Please HELP!

Keyboard and mouse preferences are stored in the following two plists:
com.apple.systempreferences.plist
com.apple.universalaccess.plist
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