Preferences lost when I reset

It seems like everytime my computer is turned off and on, or at least whenever updated, all my preferences are lost. My dock is reset, my Firefox bookmarks and settings return to default, and my AIM preferences as well. Is there some setting that causes this to happen or is it because of the updates I installed? Any help is much appreciated. Thanks.

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