Technical reference about the apple system preferences files

Hi Community,
is there a technical reference or at least a short description about apples system preferences files in Snow Leopard available? I don't mean the structure of references files as a whole but the meaning and functionality of a specific plist.
Thx & Bye Tom

Dave Sawyer wrote:
[com.apple.loginitems.plist]
Yes this was my thought too but it didn't drop the login items after I
threw > the loginitems.plist.
Some apps may automatically add themselves to this list, controlled by their
own preferences. But that is indeed the preference that controls that list.
I'm confused because after this experience I found a lot of tutorials, documentations and forum discussions which describes the loginwindow.plist as the responsible plist for the login items. My suspicion was that the loginitems.plist rebuild process take notice about the content of loginwindow.plist, which is in the root of the matter the same as in loginitems.plist.
But I couldn't answer this question competent and that's the reason why I'm searching for detailed informations about this "forgotten" loginitems.plist. Forgotten? Try to search for it. Its unbeleavable, 99% of the hits you get belongs to the loginwindow.plist and the description sounds very similar to the functionality of loginitems.plist. But maybe you're right and the applications try to put themselves back into the startup item list. But this doesn't answer the relation between this two plists.
Thy & Bye Tom

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