Perhaps he has old prefs that have been accidentally used as the new ones after restart.

Also, yes, check firmware on internal and external (especially external with Panther) drives.

Perhaps he has a problem with his .dat file not being saved correctly on a non-user initiated quit or his .bak is being written over his .dat b/c the LW thinks it quit unexpectantly b/c the user didn't initiate the quit.


Looking at your first post...

When you installed your video card and motehrboard battery, did you reset your CUDA switch?

Also, resetting your PRAM could help as well.