Safari auto-deletes all cookies

So periodically, every few days, Safari automatically deletes all my cookies. I don't want it to do this but I can't find a way to make it stop. It didn't use to happen, it seems to have started happening after an update, so is this normal, was this put in as a security feature, or is some problem afoot?

Since the last raft of updates, I have a problem where all sites I am usually always logged in with are logged out and the username and password no longer fill themselves in, until I re-enter them, and then it will work normally for a few days and then they all get lost again. In Safari Preferences, all cookies are still present, and are forms autofill URLs and keychain shows the site passwords too. Is this what you have?

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I really dont understand this:
Approx. once a week when I launch Safari ALL my bookmarks are gone...
The Bookmarks.plist is located in ~/Library/Safari only all my bookmarks are mysteriously gone....
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PS - On this MacBook I've done an upgrade to Leopard rather than a clean install... Wish I hadn't upgrading instead of clean installing is just about the most stupid thing one can do....

SteveDjokes wrote:
I really dont understand this:
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The Bookmarks.plist is located in ~/Library/Safari only all my bookmarks are mysteriously gone....
I have tried resetting Safari and deleting the preferences...
Anyone with ideas are more than welcome
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