System Preferences don't stick

Hi,
I can't change the screensaver, no matter what I choose, always Flurry will run.
Also, my mouse tracking preferences are forgotten after login out. It would seem that the System Prefs App is corrupted.
I tried reinstalling it with Pacifist with no results.
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Kiko

anyone?

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All items in system preferences don't get saved/applied. By now the dock doesn't appear on my screen, dashboard and spaces tabs don't work, desktop and screen saver don't save changes or apply so desktop is grey. Trackpad functions don't work.
Any idea on how to fix this? Thanks.

Few have solved this problem by repairing disk
or reinstalling Lion using Recovery HD.
Tough but.

System preferences don't work

I upgraded to Mavericks and I 'm having few problems, sigh
I have since MLion 5 different desktop screens
I assigned different applications to each screen:
Safari opens in the second screen, Mail in the first and so on.
When I restart my prefs are gone. All apps open in the first screen or on the desktop where I am in that moment.
Another even more annoying bug is that
if I lock the screen saver in System Prefs , Security Privacy, General, it locks
but then if I uncheck the radio button “Require password”
it keeps asking for the password every time the computer sleeps.
I already tried to reset the PRAM, throw away those preferences
com.apple.finder.plist,
com.apple.systempreferences and
com.apple.screensaver.
and restart. They were the most recent ones in my user prefs folder, presumably the one changed
Nothing changed.
Of course I repaired the permissions, restart and repaired my permissions from the recovery disk
If I restart with password required
it will stay like that till I restart
and if it's not required it will not be possible to change my preference when I would like.
It looks like my system preferences don't accept changes as they did before upgrading to Mavericks.
Some do but some, like the one I mentioned above, don't
I'm guessing there is something broken somewhere that does not let me keep my prefs the way I want
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Do you use Mission Control?
I think this the new version of altered desktops.
About require "password"
In the settings you can change settings without unlocking (this might be a bug) try to unlock first and then make your changes.
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Lasse

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I've upgraded from OS X 10.10 to 10.10.1 today.
The upgrade caused various system preferences to change, and now I cannot change them back.
While System Preferences.app seems to accept my changes, they are reverted after I quit and restart System Preferences.
For example:
Language & Region:
- I used to have various languages in the list of my preferred languages. Since the update, only German remains in the list. Adding other languages does not stick.
- My Region is set to Germany - English, which causes german text but english number formats to be used. Changing the number format to german does not stick.
General:
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- Windows are now closed upon quitting applications. I don't want this, but removing the check box does not stick.
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With kind regards
Piers Walter

Back up all data before proceeding.
This procedure will unlock all your user files (not system files) and reset their ownership, permissions, and access controls to the default. If you've intentionally set special values for those attributes on any of your files, they will be reverted. In that case, either stop here, or be prepared to recreate the settings if necessary. Do so only after verifying that those settings didn't cause the problem. If none of this is meaningful to you, you don't need to worry about it, but you do need to follow the instructions below.
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If you have more than one user, and the one in question is not an administrator, then go to Step 2.
Triple-click anywhere in the following line on this page to select it:
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Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
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☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
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The command may take several minutes to run, depending on how many files you have. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign ($) to appear, then quit Terminal.
Step 2 (optional)
Take this step only if you have trouble with Step 1, if you prefer not to take it, or if it doesn't solve the problem.
Start up in Recovery mode. When the OS X Utilities screen appears, select
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res
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