Stop Safari from resetting preferences after quitting

After installing Macafee, Safari will keep settings after quitting. I have uninstalled Macafee by using their uninstaller and the problem persists. The default apple homepage opening on Safari startup and is getting very old. Any ideas on how to stop this from happening?

Try deleting the password for that site...
Quit Safari. Now open Keychain Access. (Applications/Utilities). Select Passwords on the left.
Delete the keychain for that site.
Relaunch Safari. Navigate to the site. Enter your user name and password as usual. When prompted to save that data, click Never.

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and...>
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> How can I stop Dreamweaver from inserting spaces after
variables?
>
> Example:
> "...write to you@ and ..."
> is changed by DreamWeaver to
> "...write to you@
> 
> and...>
>
> When saving or doing other editing, DreamWeaver adds a
space and a line break
> before and after the variable. The line break isn't hard
and doesn't show, but
> the spaces added before and after the variable DO show
in browsers. That looks
> rather stupid and incompetent, and requires hand editing
on the server after
> uploading.
>
> Line wrap and code formatting are turned off.

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