Asian Input Sources Disappear

My OS X Maverick crashed all of the sudden.  After it reboots, I noticed all of my Asian input sources (Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese) disappeared.  I tried to use System Preferences | Keyboard | Input Source dialog to add the input sources back but I have no luck to find any of them.  They just DISAPPEARED!!!
If I log in via a Guest Account, I can see them in the same dialog.  I am sure there must be some plist files corrupted or something but I have no luck to figure out which file(s) I should delete and restart the machine.
Any help would be appreciated.

Tried
sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Preferences/*HI*plist
sudo rm -rf ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/*HI*plist
sudo languagesetup and make sure it is set to English
Reboot the machine
Doesn't work
#2nd attempt
sudo mv ~/Library/Preferences ~
Reboot the machine
Still not working
It is getting very frastruating.

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