Activity Monitor no more working!

Suddenly, I discovered today, starting Activity Monitor show me an alert panel with
"the application closed unexpectedly", and bye bye. Also as admin user. What the he**?
I have the last available version on my iMac PowerPC, no software update to download.
I reinstalled Activity Monitor from the Leopard DVD using Pacifist, and repaired the
disk permissions. Nothing changed. So what to do?

I asked you to try another user account because I suspected a preference file in your main wasn't working. When the same problem occurs in another account, this usually means the problem is somewhere in the system. In my experience, the easiest way to deal with a system-wide problem is to do an Archive and Install of the OS. It will save all the user data and settings, but puts a fresh copy of the OS on the machine--which should fix whatever hiccup is causing your Activity Monitor to give you problems.
There's the possibility that some terminal commands could help you, but I've no experience with it.
If you don't like my suggestions, don't follow them--an Archive and Install is often suggested when other troubleshooting doesn't help. My post count doesn't much matter to me, really. I'm just trying to help folks and learn while doing so.
~Lyssa

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