Where is my user pref file?

The icon in my Users & Groups preferences keeps changing back to one I don't want, no matter how many times I change it. I think the preferences file is corrupted and would like to delete it, but where is it in Lion? There used to be a Library folder in the user folder. Help!

I think I have solved my issue. When I looked at the pref files I found a number of gibberish files, usually in groups of two or three, which appeared to have no content. I deleted these and so far so good!
The files deleted were:

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