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I don't want my apps to open previous windows. When I go into Prefs/General and unclick "Restore windows when quitting...," and close preferences, it doesn't save it. When I re-open Prefs/General, it's checked again.

I can't change the preferences in anything. Safari keeps opening the same last two windows and when I go into Safari Preferences and change "New tabs open with:" to 'Home Page'; once I close and open up again, it's back to 'Top Sites.'

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This sounds like a bug that Apple would need to fix, however, it could also be a permissions problem. Can you open Console.app, reproduce this, and report any error messages that appear in Console? – bneely Aug 27 '11 at 17:48
bneely...sorry that's out of my league. I can open Console.app (why are there two?) but after that I'm staring at a box of rocks. This is a new MacBook Air and I have been having some permissions problems that were caused when the Apple Store created a "test" account to transfer files. Might be time for another one-to-one visit. Thanks! – KLOS Aug 27 '11 at 20:25
I would check ~/Library/ and ~/Library/Preference's permissions so you can read and write, because that's where all the preferences are stored. – Vervious Aug 28 '11 at 4:54

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