Apple screen capture prefs

Re-the Apple screen capture feature (command Shift 4) being unable to survive more than a few seconds, I seem to recall Michael Henley writing something about the possibility of a corrupted pref file.
I could only find those 2:
•Myname>library>Prefs>ByHost>com.apple.ImageCaptureExtension2.0014511699b0.plist
•Myname>library>Prefs>com.apple.ImageCaptureApp.plist
I didn't touch the first one (ByHost), but I tried removing the second one into an empty folder on the Desktop, and restarted.
However, a new file was not created (and the crosshair worsened) so I just put the original file back.
Is there anything I could have done to get a robust crosshair?
Mac mini Mac OS X (10.4.2)

The gamma filter is where you will end up. This entire gamma situation is very confusing for all of us. In addition to the standard gamma differences between Macs and PCs, the different codecs have different assumed gammas. Animation works in a 1.8 gamma space, ProRes, and DV in 2.2. FCP expects a 2.2 color space from the video, but displays it correctly in a 1.8 space.
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