Can not type!

Hi!
Can not type while loged in as specific user. It is possible to type as another user, or when promped to authorize something. Mouse working fine. Combination mouse + cmd/alt/shift etc works fine. No hardware problem.
I find out that ALL non-asian keyboard layouts in international panel of System Preferences are missing as well as Keyboar pane crashes SysPref if clikcked on.
I asumed that something was wrong with local users prefs files so I erased them. Unfortunately no change!
Any suggestions?
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Ok, I was maybe not quite clear about erasing/moving Prefs map to Desktop but it's always done like you said, anyway...
I did basicly everything you said even before, and had no impact on my problem. Strange thing is that there is no error message in any log file.!?!
I did find something like "can't find KD?? something" in console.log before but not any more. Crash log for syspref looks like this
Date/Time: 2006-07-02 10:24:59.038 +0200
OS Version: 10.4.7 (Build 8J135)
Report Version: 4
Command: System Preferences
Path: /Applications/System Preferences.app/Contents/MacOS/System Preferences
Parent: WindowServer [336]
Version: 3.3 (3.3)
Build Version: 6
Project Name: SystemPrefsApp
Source Version: 1260100
PID: 365
Thread: 0
Application Specific Information:
Keyboard &
Mouse v.3.1 (com.apple.preference.keyboard)
Exception: EXCBADACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERNPROTECTIONFAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000000
Thread 0 Crashed:
0 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x907beafc CFArrayGetCount + 52
1 com.apple.preference.keyboard 0x0602e758 KeyboardAdded + 5796
2 com.apple.preference.keyboard 0x0602f540 KeyboardAdded + 9356
3 com.apple.preference.keyboard 0x060298d8 dyldstubIOServiceClose + 100763244
4 com.apple.systempreferences 0x00006978 0x1000 + 22904
5 com.apple.systempreferences 0x00006504 0x1000 + 21764
I'm realy wondering what's wrong???
MacBook Pro / PowerMac G5, xServe G5... Mac OS X (10.4.7)

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