Accounts System Preference Blank

Question

Problem surfaced while trying to install Retrospect Client on G4 Graphite Dual 450 running OS X (10.3.9). Retrospect itself, running on Dual 2.6 G5 (OS X - 10-4-8) can see the new client and tries to add it via TCP/IP, but requires password.
These are work machines and the users can never remember their passwords, so there are none, but Retrospect doesn't enable connection without a password. So, I go to the System Preferences - Accounts, and the window opens completely blank - no accounts, nothing.
The G4 is started in its Admin account.
I tried restarting from a system DVD and repairing permissions, but this does not seem to solve the problem. Is there a preference file I can throw away, or anything else that can be done to re-enable the Accounts Panel?

Answer 1

macrobat,
Welcome to Apple Discussions.
Quit System Preferences, find the com.apple.preferences.accounts.plist file which is located in the Macintosh HD/Users/username/Library/Preferences Folder, drag it to the Desktop, log out/in or restart and check for functionality of the Accounts preference.
If that is not successful, Quit System Preferences (if it's running) and trash the following file: Macintosh HD/Users/username/Library/Caches/com.apple.preferencepanes.cache
Then launch System Preferences again and check for functionality.
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