All menus greyed out after transfer to new computer via Migration Assistant

Hi!
My collegue just moved all his stuff to a new computer using the Migration Assistant.
All seem to work fine except Apple Remote Desktop 3 which start up, but the main window isn't shown and the menus are all grey.
We have tried to re-install and also tried to toss everything that's related to ARD (Like the ”Remote Desktop” folder in /Library/Application Support/Apple and the ARD prefs. file in ~/Library/Preferences) and re-installed again, but still the same.
Any ideas?
A permission problem somewhere perhaps?

It helped to do this command:
+sudo rm -rf /var/db/RemoteManagement+
Found here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2577
This let us type in the serial number again when starting up the ”Remote Desktop.app” and all seems fine.

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