[X Newbies] New X user can't keep preference selections

[Vincent Cayenne]

At 10:27 PM -0500 2/8/04, Bob Geiger wrote:
>		I can not seem to keep any preferences I make on the 
>machine after logging off or shutting down the machine. My Dock 
>loses the setting for magnification and size, and the Mail app keeps 
>asking me to input my mail data to create a mailbox.

How much free space is there on the hard disk?
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