Cannot enable keyboard & character viewer

After a fresh install of 10.7.5, I cannot enable the keyboard & character viewer. Neither the checkbox will stay checked, nor does the option appear in the input sources menu...
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Klaus

Thanks, Tom, for your speedy reply.
This is what the Terminal commands produced:
Last login: Sat May 11 21:33:45 on console
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Macintosh-7:~ klausblume$ sudo rm /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.IntlDataCache*
Password:
Macintosh-7:~ klausblume$ sudo rm /var/folders/*/*/-Caches-/com.apple.IntlDataCache*
rm: /var/folders/*/*/-Caches-/com.apple.IntlDataCache*: No such file or directory
Macintosh-7:~ klausblume$
No such file or directory
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