Safari auto deletes history after Quit

History is set to delete in one month (though I've tried "manually" as well). Every time I quit, the history plist is deleted from user/Library/Safari. When I open Safari immediately, I occasionally get the last item hanging around in the History list, but often times, nothing is there. Private Browsing is NOT on.
So far, I have:
Repaired permissions,
reset Safari,
trashed Safari (and Mail) prefs,
replaced Safari with a new download via Pacifist,
reinstalled the entire system from Reovery HD (actually may not have gone back far enough—not sure when the probelm really started, as I rarely quit Safari unless I restart the Mac).
I'm at a loss.
Can anyone offer some insight into the issue. Please, don't suggest restarting the computer, repairing permissions, deleting the prefs, or any of the other options I've already tried, Thanks!

D'oh! You are almost certainly right on this one. I'd just come back after a long slog through different startup options: Safe Mode start up didn't affect anything but signing in as a different admin cleared up the issue. And *checking prefs* it just so happens that Cookie.app reset its prefs with last update (Jan 31st). I didn't think to check it before. Perhaps resetting those options will solve this for good.
If Cookie isn't the culprit, it's probably the latest finderpop beta or something. Srsly, I have no luck with login items on Lion / Mountain Lion. I've had to remove FinderPop before.*headdesk*
Thanks for driving this point home (I'll never learn, seems like).

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