Cannot Access Keyboard and Mouse Preferences

For some reason I've had lots of problems accessing the Keyboard and Mouse preference pane of the System Preferences.
Prior, I could open the pane, and whenever i switched between keyboard, mouse and trackpad, I would get overlap. Basically, bits and pieces from each setting wouldn't disappear when the new device (either keyboard, or trackpad, or mouse, etc) was selected, so everything would look mumble-jumbled.
Now, however, I can't even open the settings. I've rebooted, Repaired permissions and relaunched finder, but have had no luck. When I click on the Keyboard and mouse Button, all I get is a message in the title bar of the window itself saying: "Loading Keyboard & Mouse..." with no effect. Any ideas???

I was having the same problem too. I deleted some preference file (sorry I can't remember which one, I found it here on the forums) and it started working. Sort of... Now I can actually open up the "Keyboard and Mouse" pane, but when I click on the mouse button I don't have the correct options.
I have a 2-button wheel mouse connected, but I don't have the option to assign the wheel button a function. I can't assign the left and right buttons functions either. The only option is to make the "Primary mouse button" left or right. It also has controls for tracking speed, scroll speed, and double-click speed. But I've lost the ability to assign the buttons to the functions I want them assigned to.
The even stranger part is that the buttons do what I want them to do still. My right button acts like a right-click (control-click) even though it doesn't show on the mouse preferences.
I want to be able to change the wheel button so that it doesn't activate my Dashboard but I can't. If I press too hard while scrolling up or down with the wheel the Dashboard is activated. It's so annoying...

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