Pantone Swatches Panel Not Persistent

Sorry if it seems like this has been covered, but I've searched through the forums and can't find a solution.
Bog-standard install of CS 5.5 Design Standard suite on a Mac, OS 10.7.3, everything is up to date.
No networking, all apps insatlled locally, Swatches reside in /Applications/Adobe Illustrator CS5.1/Presets/en_US/Swatches/Color Books.
I'm logged in to an admin account.
I've tried saving workspaces with the Pantone Solid Coated swatch open and marked "persistent" and nothing seems to work.

Drag this file
into
Swatches flyout Menu >> Open Swatch Library >> USER DEFINED >> (choose the swatch library you dropped there)
Make this library persistent, save workspace (incase your prefs get reset in future), quit, restart illustrator. Viola.
Too bad the illustrator beta doesn't have better people, or problems like this would have been fixed a long time ago.

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Hello all,
I'm posting this in the hopes that someone else searching for the problem might find my post to lead them to the solution.
I recently installed Illus CS4 on my new mac (yay!)
I'm slowly working through all the new features - and new glitches.
One of those glitches was that my Pantone palette kept disappearing every time I quit Illus. And Yes... I had checked the little button that said "persistent".
Finally after searching the forums and new help center (to no avail), I started experimenting on my own.
I wish I could give you specific steps, but to be honest, I was trying several things at once and I just happened to notice that it 'magically' re-appeared.
1. quit illus if you have it open now. Leave your pantone swatch pallet the way you like it, and make sure the persistent is clicked.
2. reopen illus with no documents open. (the palette won't open).
3. open a NEW and DIFFERENT pantone swatch palette. Click persistent again.
4. quit illus.
5. reopen illus yet again. Close the 'other' pallete - Your original palette should be open now.
In a nutshell, I had to use one palette to force the other one to stay persistent. Perhaps someone can have better luck than me in describing the exact steps here.
For what it's worth, I got this to work on our second machine here as well.
I'm not sure if this matters or not, but...
The palette that I was having problems with was the Pantone Solid Coated.
I opened the Pantone Matte pallet (i think).
Hope this vague description helps someone else.
keywords: Pantone Palette swatches swatch persistent disappearing

Hi Wade,
I appreciate your response but with respect, none of those issues make any sense to me.
Yes, I agree, it may not be happening on your system. I wasn't saying this glitch is across the board. My co-worker in Idaho doesn't have the problem either.
But, I have two Mac Pro's here at the office with the same problem.
It can't be a corrupt pref's since I am using the same prefs when the problem happened, and when the problem was fixed.
It can't be a corrupt font. Otherwise my discovered fix would still not work. ie: I didn't uninstall any fonts nor did I mess with any fonts to fix the problem.
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If you can explain why opening up a second pantone swatch palette fixed the problem then I'm all ears :)
>>>
Totally unrelated...
I signed on today and did a search to see if anyone responded to my post. I searched for the word "persistent"... my post here did not show up.
This is where I searched: http://www.adobe.com/support/illustrator/
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