User preferences spontaniously reset?

Do I have to reinstall OS X now?
Yesterday I was having trouble with FrontRow hanging on me so I had to turn off the power to get it to respond to me. When I restarted, and loaded ITunes, my preferences had reset, it was acting like a fresh install or upgrade, asking me to verify the liscense agreement, etc. Then I find my safari bookmarks are all gone, and I have to reset the cache in camino to get my websites to load corerctly. also all my keychain seems to be gone, none of my saved passwords are there.
This morning I check the computer, no power on or off inbetween, and my desktop background reset back to default, and my Dock has all the default install icons back in it. I try to load stickies and my 5 stickies I use all the time are nowhere to be found.
Time to backup my data and reinstall or what? Only been running the thing for about 3 months... I was a windows convert, id like to stay one...

I would first try creating a new user account. If you problems go away in the new account then you clearly have an account issue rather than a system-wide issue.

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+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
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+-----------------------------
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+-----------------------------
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