I tried to adjust the settings, and got the message that General preferences has been saved, than tried to use the update command in BOINC, and was surprised that BOINC did not return that general preferences have been changed. So I looked again into website ant noticed that old values are left, and no matter how many times I try to change it.

Your database server is _very_ acting up.

P.S. Trying to post this I also got an SQL error :\
Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /shift/lxfsrk429/data01/boinc/projects/lhcathome/html/inc/forum.inc on line 312

Edit: Sorry for multiple posts, newly created ones did not show, so I retried.