Preview wont save printing presets 10.5.8

Action: When viewing a Photo and or PDF in preview. this is the standard below.
I wish to change the Presets to hold the changes as seen below.
When i go back to use my preset it looks like this and the printed paper is not my preset.
I am Working on MacPro intel running 10.5.8 fully updated. and the issue seems to follow
suit with whatever program uses the Preview GUI to print. If this is a known issue can you please show me the link
that a bug report was submitted and that someone is indeed looking into it. we have a very large system using only mac's
and this is a very big issue for what we use the macs for here.
thank you in advance
Atticus

Seems all that info is held in this file below.
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, move this file to the Desktop for now...
/Users/yourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.print.custompresets.plist
reboot & try setting up the Presets again.
Mine works here in 10.5.8 on PPC G5.

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