Brush Settings Not Saving

Hey guys, I've been having an issue with Photoshop for about 2 days now and haven't been able to find a solution.

I've had an issue in the past where changing the settings of one brush was affecting all of my brushes, turns out I was just selecting the brush tip shape and not the actual brushes, but now I'm having a problem where none of my brush settings are being saved properly when I navigate away from them even when I don't touch the brush tip shapes. I will make a brush with custom settings, save it as a preset, then select a different brush from my brush list (not the brush tip panel), and said brush will have at least some of the same settings from the previous brush I worked with. 

For example: I have a simple embroidery brush that has angle jitter set to 'direction', I'll save it as a preset, then click on my sketching brush and it will have the same angle jitter. I'll fix my sketch brush back to the way I like it and save it as a preset, then go back to my embroidery brush and it'll have lost its angle jitter, etc.

I've tried resetting my preferences, followed the steps to create a brush preset exactly, and I'm legit at a loss at this point lol. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated!