ok if you delete com.stickies.plist
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.stickies.plist
you will not lose your notes in stickies.
I just done that on my laptop logged in as root and deleted the file made no change.
100% sure I have no file called com.apple.stickies.plist on my desktop or any file called stickies only the application I have logged in as root to check for invisibles.
