Blank Universal Access Window

I was wanting to change some settings in the Universal access window of the preferences, however when I get to it, it is completely blank.
All that I see is Universal Access at the top of the window, the arrow icons, the show all button, and the spotlight bar. How do I get the preference window back?

Well don't know if this was the best way to do it, but I managed to fix it. I erased the UniversalAccessPref.prefPane in the System/Library/PreferencePanes, on my macbook and replaced it with the same file from iMac.

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Advantage here is you run most of your light weight Windows programs like this at the same time as OS X.
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I've installed both samba (needed for CUPS to print to printers connect to a windows pc) and smb/client. The smb/client and samba services are running. The smb/server service is not installed.
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Can someone confirm a possible bug with Universal Access?
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