Please help! EVERY TIME I open Lightroom, my purchased presets are gone!

This is getting really annoying! I back-up my catalogs, but even then, once I reopen Lightroom my purchased presets are gone. If I open my previous catalogs, the presets are not there, so all the photos I edited using those presets are returned back to their original forms. I always have to redownload all my presets, and it's bugging me so much since I'm on time constraints! What is wrong with my Lightroom?!
Also, every time I open my Lightroom program, the "Purchase Lightroom: I have a serial number/Trial version" pop-up shows. I always have to reenter my Lightroom serial number. >:( Am I doing something wrong?? Thank you.

Welcome to AD!
It's probably some Sony bloatware on your Vaio. Vaio owners world-wide have been battling this problem since 2008. It's some bad Sony software that deliberately attacks itunes. Apparently a while back, you launched the Sony media center that came pre-installed on your machine, and ever since, iTunes hasn't been able to properly save its library database.
Upgrade the Vaio Media software, as mentioned here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2715
And here is the thread from 2008 where it was discovered the Sony bloatware was causing it:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8537277

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