System accessibility settings not saving on Yosemite - any ideas?

Hi everyone! I've noticed a while ago that in the accessibility settings, the reduce transparency option was enabled. When I disabled it (I prefer to keep the transparency), after a little while, it will always revert back to 'reduce transparency'. This happens regardless of whether I use light/dark mode. Does anybody know how I could fix this issue?
I'm running the latest version of OSX Yosemite and I'm using a Macbook Pro Retina 13" Late 2013 version.

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