Safari 5.0.4 - 'Reset Safari' not working properly?

I've been noticing recently that resetting Safari doesn't seem to work properly. I will reset Safari at least once a day, usually more. Then I will go on a website I haven't been on for days and I'll still be logged in, or I'll go another website that I haven't been on for a week and it will show a previous search I've done, and so on. I don't understand why as this never used to happen, I don't have any sites added to a safe 'don't clear history' list or anything like that. I have all boxes on the reset screen checked and always have done. I haven't updated anything recently so can't imagine what may have caused this. Also I have a new IP address every day so it shouldn't be that sites are recognising me from that. Any ideas what I can do about this?

I have 5.0.3 installed; my reason for coming to Discussions today is to check whether folks are having any issues with 5.0.4 before I install it.
I've noticed that storage of Cookies acts strangely in 5.0.3. You can't clear Cookies permanently (via Safari/Preferences/Show Cookies). They come back from the dead. Even with 'Never accept cookies' checked a Google Cookie is installed in next to no time. This never used to happen with 3.2.1 (I routinely cleared Cookies in this way and they stayed dead).
There was discussion about this in the thread, "Safari removed cookies reappear"
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=13054062#13054062
After reading this page "Create Safari cookies that expire after each session" http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20031026012426123, I posted this comment in that thread:
I decided to remove all Cookies out of Cookies.plist via Reset Safari.
I ticked only 'Remove all cookies' in the Reset Safari pane then clicked 'Reset'.
The Cookie.plist 'Date Modified' changed to the time of this operation, so I presume Cookies were removed. (I should have checked file size before and after, but didn't think of this until after, currently it is 4KB.)
I returned to Cookies.plist 'Get Info' and locked the file.
This technique has worked well.
No Cookies are stored permanently in Cookies.plist
I just checked and Cookies.plist Date Modified is 08/02/2011 with 4KB File Size, so the File hasn't changed since I posted that comment on the other thread.
So Cookies are installed only for the duration of the Safari session. I often quit Safari on purpose during a session just to clear all Cookies before I, say, login to email.
I'm not tech savvy, so not sure if you could consider locking the .plist file for History or some other file as a way to work around Safari's latest quirk.
I don't like losing History and Cache (I find the different coloured icons of websites useful when selecting in Bookmarks lists; the icons all go with Reset Cache).
For login details, I have deselected the AutoFill option in Safari Preferences pane so no passwords are stored in the Keychain. This prevents Safari from remembering any login details, so I suspect that would overcome your problem with subsequent unwanted login to sites, but you lose the convenience of having details autofilled when you want to login somewhere. I don't mind, it helps to keep my brain cells working (remembering).

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