Safari settings still not lasting

Question

Good Evening,
I recently posted a question which I felt was answered at the time correctly in reference to maintaining my settings in Safari.  I'll attach the URL as well as repost the question asked:
How do I lock the favorites bar and stop the "welcome screen"?
I've been a Mac user for quite some time and recently upgraded to OX X 10.10, and Safari 8.0.  My issue is I like my favorites bar to be available, however each time I quit Safari I have to hit Shift+Command+b to force it to appear again.  Is there a way I can lock this setting so I don't have to set up my browser each time I sit down to the computer?  Also, I would like to know what it takes to get rid of the "Welcome to Safari" banner from starting up each time I restart the program.  I went to preferences>general and tried to change the settings in "New tab opens with" and "New windows open with", however these settings reset each time I restart Safari as well.  Thanks for any assistance
Bottom line is that I unchecked the general "close windows when quitting an app" and this worked it seemed, however the issue is back.  If anyone knows how to lock the favorites bar permanently aside from switching to firefox, opera, or chrome I would appreciate the help.

Answer 1

So, I believe I have found a fix that is somewhat long and technical.  The thread I found it in was here:
safari unstable
for some reason on this new update safari has become unstable for some users I'm guessing.  The following steps seemed to have helped me (NOTE: I've edited the procedure to reflect what I've seen on my Mac...Linc Davis deserves all credit for the assist!)
Back up all data if you haven’t already done so. Before proceeding, you must be sure you can restore your system to the state it’s in now.
Last warning: DO NOTHING unless you have a backup and you know you can restore from it.
Read this whole message before doing anything. (I copied and pasted it to a word doc and printed it out)
Quit (command+q) Safari if it’s running.
Step 1
In the Finder, press the key combination shift-command-A to open the Applications folder. Select the Safari icon in that folder and press the key combination command-I to open the Info window. There’s a checkbox in the Info window labeled Open in 32-bit mode. If that box is checked, uncheck it. Close the Info window and the Applications folder.
***I didn't see the above first step, as my Mac is already upgraded to Yosemite.***
Open the Library folder in your home folder as follows:
***** ON YOSEMITE - in finder press shift+command+g in order to find the "Go to Folder"  and search for ~/Library option discussed below"******
☞ If running Mac OS X 10.7 or later, hold down the option key and select Go ▹ Library from the Finder menu bar.
☞ If running an older version of Mac OS X, select Go ▹ Go to Folder… from the Finder menu bar and enter “~/Library” (without the quotes) in the text box that opens.
Delete the following items from the Library folder (some may not exist):
Caches/com.apple.Safari
Caches/com.apple.WebKit.PluginProcess
Caches/Metadata/Safari
Preferences/com.apple.WebKit.PluginProcess.plist
Saved Application State/com.apple.Safari.savedState
Leave the Library folder open. Try Safari again. If it works now, stop here. Close the Library folder. (For me my browser was still not saving settings at this point)
Step 2
If Safari still doesn’t work right, quit, go back to the Finder and move the following items from the open Library folder to the Desktop (some may not exist):
(I REMOVED A FEW MORE FILES THAN THE ORIGINAL PROCEDURE - the different ones are underlined)
Cookies/com.apple.appstore.plst - corrupt (not sure if this matters, however I see corrupt to be a bad thing)
Cookies/Cookies.binarycookies
Cookies/Cookies.binarycookies - corrupt
Cookies/Cookies.plist
Cookies/Cookies.plist_temp_9140_0.dat (figured temp files should go too)
Cookies/Cookies.plist_temp_41767_0.dat
Cookies/Cookies.plist_temp_44798_0.dat
Cookies/Cookies.plist_temp_58558_0.dat
Preferences/com.apple.Safari.LSSharedFileList.plist
Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist
Preferences/com.apple.Safari.RSS.plist
PubSub/Database
Safari
(Note: you are not moving the Safari application. You’re moving a folder named “Safari.”)
Try again. This time Safari should perform normally, but your settings and bookmarks will be lost. (this is where I found success...my custom settings were remaining even after I quit Safari!)
If the issue is still not resolved, quit Safari again and put all the items you moved to the Desktop back where they were, overwriting the newer ones that will have been created in their place. You don’t need to replace the files you deleted in step 1. Stop here and post again.
If Safari is now working normally (apart from the lost settings), look inside the “Safari” folder on the Desktop for a file named “Bookmarks.plist”. Select File ▹ Import Bookmarks from the Safari menu bar. Import from that file. Recreate the rest of your Safari settings. You can then delete the items you moved to the Desktop.
Note: This step will remove your Safari Extensions, if any, and their settings. If you choose to restore them, do so one at a time, testing after each step to make sure you haven’t restored the problem.
If you don’t like the results of step 2, you can undo it completely by quitting Safari and restoring the items you moved or deleted in that step from your backup, overwriting any that were created in their place. If you followed these instructions, you have a working backup and you know how to restore from it. If you didn’t follow the instructions, I can’t help.
I will leave this thread up, in case someone comes up with a more direct reason why this works, however at this time it seems as though things are working how I want them again.