Stock Widget RESETS to Defaults... ???

On 10.4.4 the Stock Widget resets regularly to default company symbols... I delete unwanted symbols and rekey the ones I want... it works for a while, and then during the day, I can't say when, haven't observed it, resets to default symbols and deletes my entries. Any ideas on how to fix this minor annoyance? I haven't done a thing to it in anticipation of some obscure error which will crash and burn the drive. Lol. Thanks.

I tried your fix, waited a bit and saw the same revert to default stock symbols as has happened before.
Thanks for your advice, it was wortha shot.
Any other thoughts out there?
By the way, the update doesn't help either.

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