Safari annoyance

I'm getting a message which reads:

(null) - New Settings
New settings have been created for this application. Do you wish to use
these settings from now on?

Yes NO

Right behind it, I sometimes get this one:

Sync Server - New Settings
New settings have been created....etc.

So I tried resetting Safari, and in the process of dealing with the
results of that, I found this one:

AddressBookSync - New Settings
New settings have been created....etc.

Can someone tell me why I'm getting these messages and how (there goes
another one, the Sync Server message) I can make them go away?

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In article <bobball-1F5393.22303313062005 DeleteThis @news.chartermi.net>,
Bob Ball <bobball DeleteThis @chartermi.nope.net> wrote:

> I'm getting a message which reads:
>
> (null) - New Settings
> New settings have been created for this application. Do you wish to use
> these settings from now on?
>
> Yes NO
>
> Right behind it, I sometimes get this one:
>
> Sync Server - New Settings
> New settings have been created....etc.
>
> So I tried resetting Safari, and in the process of dealing with the
> results of that, I found this one:
>
> AddressBookSync - New Settings
> New settings have been created....etc.
>
> Can someone tell me why I'm getting these messages and how (there goes
> another one, the Sync Server message) I can make them go away?

The only time I've seen messages like those was after a few repeated
crashes of some applications. After a few crashes, Mac OS X creates a
new default preference file for the crashing app, in the hope that the
crashing is just due to corrupted preferences.

If that is what you are seeing your system might be badly messed up.

From the Finder Go menu, select "Go to Folder..." then type in:
/private/var/log/ then find the crashreporter.log file and double-click
it. It should open in the Console. See if you have a bunch of recent
entries, most likely the same as the apps mentioned in those message
dialogs.

If you do, you'll have to look into why it's crashing and what to do
about it. You may want to look at the crash logs for those apps and see
if there is a common reason. Crash logs can be found in:

~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/ ( ~ means start from your home folder)
and /Library/Logs/CrashReporter

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