Why will Safari no longer allow me to avoid saving my History?!?

So at first I updated to Safari 4, but being extremely unhappy with the privacy options of the new browser, especially Top Sites (and the exclusion of the stop/reload button), I quickly reverted to Safari 3. I'm not sure if it was this switch, or the recent upgrade of my laptop (from a 2007 white 13" MacBook to the new 15" MacBook Pro, I simply swapped hard drives to "migrate"), but the recommended "fixes" to avoid Safari saving any sort of history (i.e. changing the history.plist document to a simple text file, or by changing it to a read-only file) no longer work! Is there any other method for preventing Safari from maintaining a history file, I hate it and have never had any need for such a thing! I've also tried this simple terminal command: defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitHistoryItemLimit 0, also to no avail. I think this is an issue with Safari 4, because when I reverted back to Safari 3, I only altered a few files to be able to reinstall the older version. Help!

Enable private browsing. It says it does the following:
"When private browsing is turned on, webpages are not added to the history, items are automatically removed from the Downloads window, information isn't saved for AutoFill (including names and passwords), and searches are not added to the pop-up menu in the Google search box. Until you close the window, you can still click the Back and Forward buttons to return to webpages you have opened."

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