Please Help! :( Wallpaper change = System prefs crash

[DrJBrooker]

Hey guys, a few weeks back i tried to change my wallpaper and System preferences just hangs and Crashes and i get this error report:

Process: System Preferences [322]
Path: /Applications/System Preferences.app/Contents/MacOS/System Preferences
Identifier: com.apple.systempreferences
Version: 7.0 (7.0)
Build Info: SystemPrefsApp-1750100~6
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [205]

Date/Time: 2010-02-18 09:59:49.177 +0000
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.2 (10C540)
Report Version: 6

Interval Since Last Report: 178163 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 5
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 83 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 4
Anonymous UUID: 1B1D9969-F606-48A6-B74E-B910DE73F085

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: 0x000000000000000a, 0x000000011b261000
Crashed Thread: 7 Dispatch queue: com.apple.root.default-priority

Application Specific Information:
IKImageWrapper
objc[322]: garbage collection is ON
|DesktopPref|-[DesktopPref didSelect]



Please help me fix it , What do i need to do??

Thanks for all the help

DrJBrooker

 

[spinnerlys]

Try repairing permissions via Disk Utility.

And:


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[DrJBrooker]

Try repairing permissions via Disk Utility.

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Tried that, No luck

 

[wrldwzrd89]

Looks like System Preferences is trying to load a preference pane and failing, for some reason. Do you have any preference panes installed in addition to the default set that comes with Snow Leopard? Also, do you know if any of these require a System Preferences relaunch to open?

 

[DrJBrooker]

There are some preference panes installed, i think i'm missing com.apple.systempreferences i cant seem to find it anywhere.

IS that normal?

 

[DrJBrooker]

Bump, Can anyone help?.

Sorry if ive Bump'd too soon

 

[wrldwzrd89]

There are some preference panes installed, i think i'm missing com.apple.systempreferences i cant seem to find it anywhere.

IS that normal?

What do you mean, you're missing com.apple.systempreferences? Do you mean ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist is missing, where ~ is your home folder?

 

[DrJBrooker]

What do you mean, you're missing com.apple.systempreferences? Do you mean ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist is missing, where ~ is your home folder?

Sorry, Nope that is there. Anything else, Im so sick of this wallpaper