Preferences lost all of the sudden.

Today when i started LR it acted like it was the first time again. it asked me for my country, serial number and registration info again. Once it started I found that all of my preferences, identity plate settings and things like that are gone. All of my photos are still there but something changed. Any ideas of what happened or how it can be fixed?

There are some fixes in the FAQ - http://forums.adobe.com/thread/358043 - but they don't work for me, and I've been having this fricking problem for ages. I've resigned myself to having to repeatedly reinput the serial details, and after the most recent instance I've saved a copy of my prefs file/folder out of harm's way so that once I've reinput the serial number I can at least copy the prefs back into their proper place and so avoid having to "rebuild" my prefs from scratch.
But I'm getting very sick of all this.
Best of luck - you might need it...

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Just what did yo do to gt iTunes to see the download:

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Try:
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
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least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Reset all settings
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Hi skrilla, and a warm welcome to the forums!
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then move these files to the Desktop.
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