Pulseaudio will not retain default device config and crashes lxpanel

No matter what I try to get pulseaudio to use the default devices i’ve listed in the config it just reverts back to whatever it wants for some reason.

user config has no default devices entered.

It will connect to the source device when I connect from the source and it will play audio to the sink for about 30 seconds before it drops the audio and changes the source device profile to off.

I have looked everywhere for something that would be causing this to no avail.

Changing the default source in config makes lxpanel disappear on start up every time.