Right i've finally fixed it, sorry aardvark that wasn't the problem
Basically what would happen is
Once signing out settings wouldn't be saved
Display Pic
Personal Message
Contacts Personal Messages and display names
Once signing in they would all be reverted back to the previous ones
Very annoying
The problem lies in the latest update for zonealarm uninstall this and everything works fine
i reverted back to an old install of zonelabs firewall now i'm fine all the problems gone
hope this helps other people as it drove me mad i reverted back to 7.5 for a while out of frustration
