Partial reset?

This is weird.   I was working on some projects last night.  I saved and closed one session and attempted to open another.  Instead of opening the proper session, Audition went through its initial startup sequence and opened the default Audition session.  I thought it was a fluke, so I closed Audition, re-booted and reloaded Audition.  When it loaded, the colors were not my scheme, the ASIO mapping had changed and had to be reset, my screen layout was wrong, my personal presets were lost and I had to re-enable DX effects.  HOWEVER, the program retained all of my keyboard shortcuts and my VST plug-ins.  Any ideas why this would happen?

Emmett

Settings are unfortunately (or maybe it's fortunate?) stored in more than one .xml file. So it rather depends on which file got corrupted...

What happens when an .xml file corrupts is that it gets trashed, and the default one is reinstated. That's why you need a backup in a safe place of any one that you modify, so you can replace the default one with a clone of your backup.