Photoshop CC - Swatches panel overflowing with greyed out automatically-added swatches

Please help!
Most of the top row are swatches  I've added myself, but the rest are garbage swatches that have somehow gotten added automatically. Reloading the swatches file seems to fix this temporarily, but soon enough these "phantom" swatches are back. The phantom swatches are selectable and the selected swatch color shows up in the color panel.
Is this a corrupted file? Or maybe a setting somewhere?

Try booting into the Safe Mode using your normal account.  Disconnect all peripherals except those needed for the test. Shut down the computer and then power it back up after waiting 10 seconds. Immediately after hearing the startup chime, hold down the shift key and continue to hold it until the gray Apple icon and a progress bar appear and again when you log in. The boot up is significantly slower than normal. This will reset some caches, forces a directory check, and disables all startup and login items, among other things. When you reboot normally, the initial reboot may be slower than normal. If the system operates normally, there may be 3rd party applications which are causing a problem. Try deleting/disabling the third party applications after a restart by using the application un-installer. For each disable/delete, you will need to restart if you don’t do them all at once.
Safe Mode - Mavericks   also Yosemite
If it works in the Safe Mode, reboot and test. If it still doesn't work, try running this program and then copy and paste the output in a reply. The program was created by Etresoft, a frequent contributor.  Please use copy and paste as screen shots can be hard to read.
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