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The question mark appeared once at logon. The Itunes application exists, however the tunes tyhat were in the itunes have disappeared along with emails and mail settings. Its as if it is a new account. Maybe i am using system preferences in the wrong context.

After further poking around n the forum, it seems that running the disk utility is popular, however i cant seem to square how that would help. I might try it anyway if there are not going to be any adverse effects. Are the system preferences store in a .profile file?.

Macbook- Mac OS X 10.6 Forgive me if this question as been asked\answered a thousand time before I am new to all things Mac. I have experience in windoze and Linux. When logging onto the mac the other day, a questions mark appeared, upon logon all of my system preferences had disapeared...