New user account not remembering my appearance dock etc.

I had problems with a user account
I set up a test account and whenever I log in to this account my dock, desktop, icon & window position, window appearance, revert to the apple default.
What do I do to get MY appearance and my dock to do what I want it to look like?
Also maybe related is Safari will not remember my home page my bookmarks etc.
Firefox will not run at all on the new user account but will on the old one otherwise I'd be using it.

Ah! When you said whenever I log in to this account my dock, desktop, icon & window position, window appearance, revert to the apple default., I read that as you expected the new account to mimic the one which created it.
In that case, yes, something is certainly wrong. An account should remember any changes you'd made to it. At least an Administrator or Standard account should. Which leads me to ask, what kind of account did you create? From the help files:
Managed with Parental Controls: These accounts have limited privileges that are managed using Parental Controls preferences.
Sharing Only: Sharing only users can access shared files in a specified location, but can’t change files on the computer or log in using the login window.
Not sure how limited a Managed account would be, but the Sharing Only account does describe your issue. Any changes you made would not be allowed to be permanent as files can't be changed. Which would also be why FireFox wouldn't run. No setup or initial preference files would be allowed to be written to disk. Same with Acrobat and others.

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