I am unable to save changes made to the preferences. It keeps reverting back to the default preferences.

Binary package hint: empathy

Everytime I go under preferences and change some settings, close out and re-open the preferences, everything has reverted back to the default setup. Is there any way to resolve this? I really dislike tabbed messaging and pop-up notifications.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: empathy 2.32.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-25.44-generic 2.6.35.10
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-25-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Feb 6 15:52:18 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/empathy
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: empathy
XsessionErrors:
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:10992): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:10998): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion `value != NULL' failed