British Dictionary in 10.6.4 not working

This issue began in the pages forum here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2533369&tstart=0
My new out of the box iMac upgraded to 10.6.4 was not recognising the British English Dictionary.
All settings in Language System preferences were correct with British English at the top of the list.
I installed a custom en_GB dictionary - no change.
I reinstalled SL from my 10.6.3 disk and all was okay both with and without the custom dictionary.
I upgraded to 10.6.4 broken again.
UK spellings are marked as incorrect, no suggestions are offered when right clicked.
Anyone else have this issue or a solution?
Thanks
M.

I had this problem on a new iMac (bought in UK), it just refused to understand British English, despite the language and text settings being correct. I used the OpenOffice OED workround as suggested here. But I have since narrowed down the problem, thanks to my old iMac - both were running 10.6.4 - the old one understood color as misspelt the new one didn't.
I compared the contents of the applespell.service (in Macintosh HD/system/library/services) - right click and show package contents then navigate to Contents/Resources/ and guess what the folders for en_AU.lproj, en_CA.lproj and en_GB.lproj were all missing! It would seem that the non-US English variants are stored in these folders, without them you just get US regardless.
So I copied the old full version to my new iMac (made a copy of the original service first just in case, and a backup), after a bit of fighting with the UI to convince it that I really did both want and have permission to replace the file, I rebooted and voila... British English spellings again without the OED workround.
At least so far it's worked for me... it looks like some Apple update (or the original new installation) had a version of the spell service without the extra resources....

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