Scratch disk selection not sticking

I'm in Illustrator CS4 on my Mac Pro. I'm trying to set my primary scratch disk to my internal RAID disk, secondary to my Main.
I make the selections in Prefs and get that 900 year old icon telling me that changes will take effect after I restart Illustrator. So I dutifully restart Illustrator. When I look at my Prefs again, my selections are gone. Anyone know how to get these to actually work?

Trashing prefs did it. Yesssssssss.
Unfortunately every article about and mention of trashing prefs seems to leave out the crucial *how*, which I eventually figured out and posted to: http://forums.adobe.com/message/2133838#2133838
Adobe would do well to include this level of detail in their unweildy help/support.
And to use a less infuriating text editor for comment editing.
Thanks all!

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