Why won't font book changes hold?

Several times I have gone into the Font Book application and unselected duplicate fonts and done the same for fonts I don't want to use. Yet before long, all are selected again -- everything.
I think it is happening whenever I flush caches as part of a routine cleanup but I am not sure. What I do know is that my settings do not hold. I have probably done this 10 times and always the same reversal.
Any ideas?
Richard

Hi, Richard.
You wrote: "I think it is happening whenever I flush caches as part of a routine cleanup but I am not sure."That's correct, w.r.t. disabled fonts. This can also happen if you startup in Safe Mode.
See the "How disabled fonts are handled in Font Book 2.0 under Tiger" section of my "Undoing Font Book" FAQ.
Cache cleaning is not something you want to perform as "regular maintenance." See my "Maintaining Mac OS X" FAQ. It covers my advice on "regular maintenance" and dispels some common "maintenance myths."
Good luck!
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