Hardware Settings not being remembered

[kirkgale]

Here's a mystery begging for advice...

running PTHD 8.03cs1 on a Win 7 x64 box, the settings in the Hardware Setup menu are *never* being remembered on each boot....

instead what may be the defaults are loaded each time (i.e., +4 dBu and AES/EBU pre-selected for both sets of 9-16 inputs on my two 192's) even though each time I changed to -10 and analog input for those 9-16 ports on each 192 (yes, I have 2nd analog cards installed in each 192 and they receive audio just fine whenever I change the hardware settings to them).
Hoping for wisdom...

[Ghengis]

Are you running as Admin, or turned user access control off? That would be the first thing I'd check.

[kirkgale]

thnx for the well wishes...and yes running as Admin and have now turned off user access control warnings...

unfortunately, PT 8.x on this system (after switching from an even less cooperative Socket 1366 board and exporting the 3 HDaccel cards to a Magma 6 slot) is also exhibiting other instabilities as soon as I've built up and named a no-audio session sporting only 10-ish midi tracks hooked up to 10-ish VI's (e.g., the session file and shortcut icons boot freezing @ "creating send mixes", and the session requiring a force exit sometimes).

can go thru the same session build-upping (from a blank) and recreate the same error patterns.

dunno where I stand and am so unhappy if I have to switch back to Mac...

[kirkgale]

I should have also clarified that the VI's involved are stock (i.e., AIR and Spectrasonics) and up-to-date and that there's 12 GB ram in the box w/ Omni showing still 1.5-ish GB ram free to use....?

[kirkgale]

and that 'round 70% of the time when a PT session cooperates with an exit-the-program move (by closing all PT windows), there's an error message waiting for me on the desktop (sort of like PT didn't close properly...close the program?)...