Recent items dont update

I screwed up a couple months ago when I was cleaning my mac up. I went into disk utilities and erased free space. This usually is fine except
I stopped it right before a lightning storm and it was only half way done. Since I did this my mac is not remembering recent items in most of the applications.
In fact every time I launch iTunes it launches the Terms and Conditions box like it was the first time it was running. All of my data, music, movies etc. is fine.
I got the systems recent items working again but the apps like Sketchbook, Quark, and Dreamweaver don't seem to update. Any thoughts would help.
Thank you.

hi Gordon
thanks for you response. what happened is my client changed the prices of the child items on the Item master data and on the BOM but when he was running the update global update some of the child items he had changed in the BOM did not change
when i was doing it on the test sytem it worked, what else do i need to look at?

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