User preferences resetting to default...

After a log out or a restart my wife's macbook pro (not the new model) all user visual prefs are lost. Goes back to deafult desktop, dock deafult, etc.not what I have just set.
FYI: User folder is on a 2nd internal hard drive (disk player removed). Checked that ML is using this as teh user folder, it is. Even reselected it, restarted, changed prefs, logged out and back to defaults.... something is not right. Thanks (upgraded from Lion).

Hmmm, no one else. Okay...
I eventually fixed it, those it was semi laborious...
The permission problem(created in upgrading to ML) was in the user library(hit go in the menu by holding the option key to reveal library ). I had to go in by hand, command "i" on folders, opening the info window, unlocked it w/ password and changed the permissions - I had to add the actual user (admin no less)and then select "read and write" access to the folder. It was a bit tedious as plenty of the folders (and inside content) had the red "-" sign revealing the permission problem. Obviously I decided against aborting the account and cleaned it up instead. Less data transfer that way.

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