When running windows in Parallels, I have a few applications that have usernames and password and I've been checking the boxes to have the programs remember this info so I don't have to re-enter it every time, but once I restart my Mac and load parallels again, none of the information is saved and I have to re-enter it all again. is there a setting in Parallels that I'm missing somewhere?
There are two possible settings that might do that, but both are quite self-explanatory. In any case, try checking that Undo disk option is disabled. That is the most possible one here, as it may be set up so that is always discards the changes. Another way would be if you always start in the Safe Mode. But that one is hard not to notice.
