Security & Privacy System Preferences pane cannot open!

my env:
- Max OS X 10.7.3
- 2.2 Ghz Intel Core i7
this month , i can not enter Security & Privacy pane from System Preferences
- when i click
- pop alert windows, tell some error
what can i do now?!

that magic is:
- my MacBookPro set up two user
- in my user, Security & Privacy System Preferences pane cannot open!
- but switch another user ,
open Security & Privacy System Preferences pane is OK?!
What make this happened?!

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Hi all,
Im running Tiger 10.4.6 on a MacBook Pro 2.0, connecting to the Internet through an ADSL router via an Airport Express base station, everything fully updated.
Suddenly, when trying to open the "Sharing" preference-pane, I get this error:
Preferences Error
You cannot open Sharing preferences pane on this
computer. Contact the developer of this software
for a newer version.
I haven't installed or updated anything in the last few days, and it worked earlier today.
I have tried restarting, and deleted the following preferences, to no avail:
com.apple.sharing.firewall.plist
com.apple.networkConfig.plist
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TIA,
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Hello again, and thank you for your replies, and sorry for the late response.
First off; I have installed the latest 10.4.7 Combo Updater, but that did not install a new SharingPref.prefPane. I even removed the old one, before running the freshly downloaded Combo installer.
Actually, I did the exact same thing a week ago - same result.
So, in the meantime I had some work I needed to finish, so I didn't have time to investigate further, until this morning. Where I, much to my surprise, found the SharingPref.prefPane back in /Macintosh HD/System/Library/PreferencePanes/ and it was still the wrong version!
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behold!
The mystery is - somewhat - solved. The old SharingPref.prefPane comes from and old Apple Remote Desktop 2.2 installer, that contains an installer called PantherSharing.pkg. See search from Console.app below.
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How can that old installer keep "updating" my system, even after I've removed the old ARD? It's as if something is running the receipt, witch I funny enough, can't find on my system anymore.
The dates don't match either, or they do, but I would expect more entries from last week, where I removed the old SharingPref.prefPane and it mystically appeared again this morning.
The receipt must have run in the last week, but I can't find anything in my logs - install.log.0.gz OR install.log.
Maybe running a reciept dosen't get logged?
Ohh well Anyway - beneath is a copy of my log, and the question now is; How do I get the correct Pref-pane, when the Combo Installer doesn't install it?
Thanks for your help everybody, and shawnhm, thanks for Sharing my Pane ... Thank you, Thank you, I'm here all week
===============================
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May 27 14:40:17 tbo : Hardware: MacBookPro1,1 @ 2000 MHz (x2), 2048 MB
May 27 14:40:17 tbo : Running OS Build: 8I1119
May 27 14:40:17 tbo : Remote Desktop Installation Log
May 27 14:40:17 tbo : Opened from: /Volumes/Apple Remote Desktop 2.2/RemoteDesktop.mpkg
May 27 14:40:18 tbo : It took 0.906322 seconds to finish launching.
May 27 14:40:20 tbo : Distribution: Remote Desktop
May 27 14:40:22 tbo : Installation checks completed successfully.
May 27 14:40:36 tbo : admin auth received to install
May 27 14:40:36 tbo : =============================================================================== =
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