Raid Admin loses settings

As of recently, I've noticed that on my main machine, every time I open up Raid Admin, the settings all default. The agree/disagree window pops up every time and all my raids disappear from the list.
Ive tried trashing the prefs in /Users/(me)/Library/Prefs and creating a new user, to no avail. Also tried updating to Admin 1.5, with no luck still.

Hey Steve,
Thanks for the help! I tried what you said... even tried copying a raid pref file from a different machine, but what I seemed to find out:
Whenever I add machines and etc, all the files are written to the file, and when I quit they stay as well.
However, whenever I open the application, the com.apple.RAIDAdmin.plist file is overwritten immidiately with something that looks like this:
bplist00? MonitoringWindowTopWSystems_MonitoringWindowHeight_LicenseAgreementAccepted_Moni toringWindowLeft_NSTreatUnknownArgumentsAsOpenMonitoringWindowWidth?
TNameZAttributesYIPAddressTRateTPumaXfFiRQfYw?]192.168.1.204]192.168.1.205B RNO-5Ni?????????????
Looks like the file becomes corrupt or something?
UPDATE
I just installed v. 1.5 on my powerbook and it's started to do the same thing... is this a new bug with the new RAID admin?

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