Some System Settings Mysteriously Reset

Hey all,
I've recently started experiencing some mysterious resetting of some of my system preferences after a reboot. I take my MBP to and from work and shut it down when moving back and forth most times. What I've encountered is a subset of my preferences getting reset to default values, but not every time. Here's what I notice that gets reset:
Appearance: Appearance, Scroll Arrows, Use Smooth Scrolling
Keyboard: key repeat rate, delay until repeat and use F1 et al as standard fn keys
Trackpad: tracking speed, scrolling speed
Mouse: tracking speed
There may be others that get reset but I just haven't noticed and still others that would be reset if I actually changed them. There are also many that I have changed that do not get reset.
Does anyone have any ideas how this happens or and suggestions on how to troubleshoot?
Thanks for your help, Jim

Thanks for the suggestion -- it may be a while before I decide the problem has been fixed though. Hopefully a couple weeks from now I'll suddenly realize "Hey, I haven't had my settings reset on my in a while!"
Cheers!

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