blueblott - I know how you felt, I did that back a few versions. I'd set up images as backdrops, and had an ongoing model i was working with for a week or two, saved those user settings, then for the next couple months, I spent the first couple minutes every time I loaded Blender, deleting the objects, and removing the images from the backdrop. Nice to  have that "default settings" option now. Course, at the time, it never occurred to me to "scrub" the scene, and save the cleaned scene as the default...doh.

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