Ok, this is really a cop-out, but I don't have time to try and browse through Evolution's thousands of lines of code, so a simple changing of permissions as a workaround fixed the groups disappearing. So, if anyone is having there groups disappear, this should fix it: chmod ug-w ~/evolution/shortcuts.xml That will make you unable to add new groups, but atleast your current ones will stop disappearing. Thanks everyone for helping out. -- Adam Voigt adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx