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I'm afraid that the problem is NOT related to reinstallation using different users.
Yesterday, I fresh-installed calibre in my daughter's Ubuntu 9.10 laptop and I had exactly the same problem. I even changed the permissions on every directory leading to /.config with no success at all. Calibre kept complaining about the .config directory every time I tried to start it (using the command line) and the wizard appeared too.
Today I have just fresh-installed the last version of calibre in my old Ubuntu 9.10 desktop computer and I had again the same problem. The script installing calibre says:
"No write acces to /home/bleriot/.config/calibre using a temporary dir instead"
Since I have no access today to my daughter's laptop, I decided to check the solution posted in my old desktop; I created the calibre folder inside .config, leaving the permissions of all the directories in the hierarchy (starting from /home) UNTOUCHED.
This indeed did the trick; the wizard appeared no more and the changes in the preferences are correctly saved (which didn't happen before, of course!)
Since NONE of both computers had had a previous calibre installation, I assume that the problem with the .permissions of the config directory are caused by some error / bug in calibre install script.
Perhaps Kovid would like to take a look to this problem...
Oh! I forgot to mention that the version of calibre showing this problem is 0.7.16.
Bleriot
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