Can't open "Formats"

In System Preferences > Language and Text, if I click the Formats tab, nothing happens. The other tabs work.
This is a problem as I messed up my date format the last time I was in there.
I tried rebooting, and safe booting, but it made no difference.
Any suggestions?
--Henri

henrip wrote:
No problem at all in a different account.
That usually indicates a bad .plist file in Home/Library/Preferences in the problem account.  Unfortunately I don't know which one.  To see Home/Library you do Finder > Go while holding down the Option key.

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