Weird behaviour in Finder Preferences

I have just set up my brand new 27"iMac and i was in Finder Preferences setting up the items I wanted in the Sidebar.
I clicked on the various items I wanted in the Sidbar Preferences list but after clicking and ticking them I noticed that the ticks then disappeared. Relaunching Finder did show the desired items were now in the sidebar so my choices were picked up. However I examined the Sidebar preferences again and found no items were ticked. Clicking on an item which was in the Sidebar again briefly showed a tick which disappeared and then on relaunching Finder that item had been removed as desired.
Obviously my choices are being dealt with correctly but the Sidebar Preference list shows nothing ticked.
I find this very weird.
Has anyone any explanations or is this "normal" Mavericks behaviour?

Finder preferences can become corrupted. It's not an unusual.
Try this..
Open the Finder. From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder
Type or copy paste the following:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
Click Go then move the com.apple.finder.plist file to the Trash
Then go to Finder > Preferences > Sidebar and try again.

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=============================
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15 Finder                              0x0000000101dc59e5 Finder + 1604069
16 libsystem_trace.dylib               0x00007fff88d74cd7 _os_activity_initiate + 75
17 AppKit                              0x00007fff8d60a497 -[NSApplication sendAction:to:from:] + 410
18 AppKit                              0x00007fff8d6245da -[NSMenuItem _corePerformAction] + 382
19 AppKit                              0x00007fff8d6242f7 -[NSCarbonMenuImpl performActionWithHighlightingForItemAtIndex:] + 114
20 libsystem_trace.dylib               0x00007fff88d74cd7 _os_activity_initiate + 75
21 AppKit                              0x00007fff8d671b96 -[NSMenu performActionForItemAtIndex:] + 131
22 AppKit                              0x00007fff8d671b06 -[NSMenu _internalPerformActionForItemAtIndex:] + 35
23 AppKit                              0x00007fff8d671952 -[NSCarbonMenuImpl _carbonCommandProcessEvent:handlerCallRef:] + 107
24 AppKit                              0x00007fff8d619eeb NSSLMMenuEventHandler + 724
25 HIToolbox                           0x00007fff9593e32c _ZL23DispatchEventToHandlersP14EventTargetRecP14OpaqueEventRefP14HandlerCallRec + 1260
26 HIToolbox                           0x00007fff9593d76e _ZL30SendEventToEventTargetInternalP14OpaqueEventRefP20OpaqueEventTargetRefP14HandlerCallRec + 386
27 HIToolbox                           0x00007fff95952286 SendEventToEventTarget + 40
28 HIToolbox                           0x00007fff95987795 _ZL18SendHICommandEventjPK9HICommandjjhPKvP20OpaqueEventTargetRefS5_PP14OpaqueEventRef + 428
29 HIToolbox                           0x00007fff959bae8d SendMenuCommandWithContextAndModifiers + 59
30 HIToolbox                           0x00007fff959bae34 SendMenuItemSelectedEvent + 188
31 HIToolbox                           0x00007fff959bad06 _ZL19FinishMenuSelectionP13SelectionDataP10MenuResultS2_ + 96
32 HIToolbox                           0x00007fff959c28b1 _ZL14MenuSelectCoreP8MenuData5PointdjPP13OpaqueMenuRefPt + 702
33 HIToolbox                           0x00007fff959c249e _HandleMenuSelection2 + 446
34 AppKit                              0x00007fff8d59fd1e _NSHandleCarbonMenuEvent + 277
35 AppKit                              0x00007fff8d43ba40 _DPSNextEvent + 1843
36 AppKit                              0x00007fff8d43ae80 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 194
37 AppKit                              0x00007fff8d42ee23 -[NSApplication run] + 594
38 AppKit                              0x00007fff8d41a2d4 NSApplicationMain + 1832
39 Finder                              0x0000000101c43960 Finder + 22880
40 libdyld.dylib                       0x00007fff8c2045c9 start + 1
41 ???                                 0x0000000000000001 0x0 + 1
Can anyone help?

Do a backup.
Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library. Then go to Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist. Move the .plist to your desktop.
Re-launch Finder by restarting and test. If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop.
If the same, return the .plist to where you got it from, overwriting the newer one.
Thanks to leonie for some information contained in this.

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