Save preferences? send usage info? can't make it stick

Oddity with Lion, mid-2011 Mini.
Been having trouble getting preferences to stick.
Noticed I can't even check the Privacy/Security option to automatically send usage data to Apple -- unlock, click the box, click the lock, looks good. Come back a few seconds later and it's unchecked. Lots of other prefs not saving.
Repairing permissions sporadically changes some things, running it again finds nothing, and running it a while later finds other permissions wrong.
Is this the kind of thing you can take to an Apple store and the geniuses will figure out?

Reinstalling 10.7.2 with a USB stick/Internet solved that problem, juts for the record.
Still having problems with ACLs and suddenly needing to authorize things like moving/trashing files every few days, fixed temporarily by deleting the ACLs, but I"ve only had to reinstall Lion twice in a month and only had five or six kernel panics. I guess that's not too bad.

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