Unable to retain year setting in preferences

iMac 2.66 GHz
OS X 10.6.8
Unable to retain "short year settings" in Preferences > Language & Text > Formats.
Am able to set the year setting in the customize window to two digits with the pop-up menu for the year, which then appears correctly when the customize window is closed. However, after the Preference window is closed and re-opened, the year appears in 4 digits. The is occurring on one of the accounts.
The same procedure was used to set the date formats in the Administrator account, where it worked correctly.

Easy, look in the User/Library folder for a file called
com.apple.systempreferences.plist
and delete it, reboot the machine and reset the system preferences for that User, the file was rebuilt from a copy OS x keeps without any preferences.
should solve your issue.
When your done with that, run the free OnyX, all the cleaning and maintainence tasks and reboot at the end (must)
That will clean your machine out, caches etc., check things out, snapt it up a bit too.
http://www.titanium.free.fr/

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