Weird preferences problem... thoughts welcomed...cheers forum!

Hi forum.
I posted this on the QuickTime forum as well.
I am having a very strange thing happening. Everytime I use QuickTime X to watch a movie, or record audio it spawns a new .plist file in /Library/Preferences.
They look like this "com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX.plist.XXXXXX"
(usually like iHk7VBl or other random mix).
There are hundreds filling up my preferences folder - its driving me nuts!
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Karl.

have you ever change permissions on anything in your preferences folder? perhaps by using 'apply to enclosed items" button?
run the following terminal command and post the results
ls -ladeO ~/library/preferences/com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX.plist
it will display current permissions on this file. I suspect it may have some permissions or ACLs preventing its deletion.

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