Personal Settings Reset to Factory Defaults on Boot Up

I'm on a mid-2012 Mac-Book Pro running OS X 10.9.4 Mountain Lion.
Every time I boot up my Mac (after it has been shut down) all of the settings on my Mac which I've changed are reset to the factory defaults (for example: the applications shown in the dock, the widgets on the desktop furthest to the left and other general settings such as the motions for the track-pad just to name a few).
Thanks in advance for any help anyone provides.

To fix this problem I have already tried running security programs to remove any malware/viruses from my computer, reinstalling my operating system and running disk utility and using the 'repair disk permissions' option.

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