You might want to clear out your yahoo related cookies. Although I'm not sure if a cookie could change the check mark on your profile... but I guess anything is possible. A cookies sole purpose is for a website to remember you and your preferences when you visit it so there could be a conflict with the hiding preference.
I use CCleaner to manage my cookies and clean out other TIF's (temporary internet files). I keep around 200 cookies active in my TIF folder for the sites I go to often where I want them to remember me but I clean out all the others with CCleaner. If you decided to start using CCleaner, let me know and I'll do a blog with screen shots on how I have mine set up since I use it ONLY to clear out temp files and TIF files. It can do a lot more but it can also clean things that people didn't want cleaned if they aren't careful and study what each setting does. I've been meaning to do a blog about CCleaner for quite a while but I won't be able to do it till later this evening since I'm off to work right now. In the interim, if you want to go and delete all your yahoo cookies now, open up an IE (internet explorer) page and then under the Tools menu, choose Internet Options. On the General tab, under the section Browsing History, click the Settings button. Then click View Files button. That will open your TIF folder. If you have 1,000's of files in there, you may want to empty your TIF folder first which will dump all the TIF files except cookies so you won't have as much to look through. To clear out all the other TIF files except cookies, leave the TIF folder open but click OK on the window that opened to give you the TIF folder "View Files" button. You'll be back to the Internet Options window. Under browsing history, click OK on that window also. Now go back to the Tools Menu on IE and at the top, there is a item called Delete Browsing History (this may work the same as the button on the Internet Options window but I'm not positive since the button on the IO window says it will delete everything where this choice opens a window that gives you options.). After you chose Tools Menu, Delete Browsing History, click the button under Temporary Internet Files and that will get rid of everything except the cookies. You'll see a separate button for cookies but don't click it since cookies can be useful. Now go back to your TIF folder that you previously opened and you should have only cookies and possible webpage Icon's remaining but I don't think they are stored in the TIF folder any longer. Now you can sort those cookie files under the "Internet Address" column... oh wait... you might not have your folders set to show details so you may be looking at the cookies in the thumbnails or tiles format. To put in in the details format, under the View Menu, choose Details. This will change the tiles or thumbnails down to single lines and columns. Now sort the cookies by clicking on the top of the column called Internet Address and read down and delete any cookie that has yahoo in it. Now you know why I use CCleaner to manage cookies as they have only two steps to go through this process. 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