I can confirm that I lose Firefox settings everytime this happens, sometimes I lose settings of Nautilus, Thunderbird, Liferea, Gaim, etc. It's not just gconf settings that are lost. The config files don't get deleted, but somehow they get corrupted. If I open them, they contain just some random data.
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