I want to restore my dashboard stickies.

in the home/library/prefrences are several stickies.plist files.

They have different time stamps

one ist the actually active one -> test with generating an new stickie

even if i replace the active file with my backup file, i can see only the stickies that were in the replaced file.😕

why are these files generated?

how to switch between these stickie files?

/Library/Preferences/widget-com.apple.widget.stickies.plist.6DDgcWK

/Library/Preferences/widget-com.apple.widget.stickies.plist.83Eoapb

/Library/Preferences/widget-com.apple.widget.stickies.plist.923LKas

/Library/Preferences/widget-com.apple.widget.stickies.plist.EKvXFnS

/Library/Preferences/widget-com.apple.widget.stickies.plist.HLMNaQr

/Library/Preferences/widget-com.apple.widget.stickies.plist.Iv8L2ou

/Library/Preferences/widget-com.apple.widget.stickies.plist.kYBIYwi

/Library/Preferences/widget-com.apple.widget.stickies.plist.NGnQri2

/Library/Preferences/widget-com.apple.widget.stickies.plist.QTW4ALX

/Library/Preferences/widget-com.apple.widget.stickies.plist.qWtCKhL

/Library/Preferences/widget-com.apple.widget.stickies.plist.Rt7eh0o

/Library/Preferences/widget-com.apple.widget.stickies.plist.sPIcZvk

/Library/Preferences/widget-com.apple.widget.stickies.plist.uDAKfyA

/Library/Preferences/widget-com.apple.widget.stickies.plist.UgUPe9l

/Library/Preferences/widget-com.apple.widget.stickies.plist.VEECYSF

/Library/Preferences/widget-com.apple.widget.stickies.plist.wXf2XXu

/Library/Preferences/widget-com.apple.widget.stickies.plist.zjIgLFO

thank you for your help

kalemath iMac(Intel), OSX 10.6.8