Maya never saves all my prefs.

Ever since version 1, Preferences->Settings->Time: always defaults to 24fps for a new scene. Everything else in the preferences are saved and will keep what you've set them to when you start a new scene, but 24fps will come back. This is a rather severely annoying issue.

Stuff like that is why you need to write a script to actually restore your settings how you want them and you can't actually rely on the settings being saved and set to something you want when you start a new scene. I find this incredibly stupid. Not just annoying, but stupid. Stupid because this is something that's been around for over 10 major releases.

common, who do i need to stick a knife into to get this fixed?

New scenes always default to 24fps, even if you "save" preferences at anything else. Stupid...