Cannot run Activity Monitor

I tried to run Activity Monitor. (One reason was to see if there was something causing seemingly sluggish behavior when, e.g., I open folders. Opening the Applications and Utilities folders seems to take a long time for all items to be listed.) I get the following message:
Activity Monitor can not start because of incorrect file permissions.
I have reset permissions using Disk Utility to no avail. I have reset permissions and ACL to all accounts using the 10.5 install disk to no avail. I have created another user (with Admin privileges), and Activity Monitor still won't run, giving the same error message. Any ideas on what is wrong and how to fix would be greatly appreciated. I am on the verge of reinstalling 10.5 (and am willing to do so, if it solves these problems). Thanks!

You should check for ACL troubles in your /Applications directory
Open terminal.app
at the prompt type:
ls -ael /Applications/utilities
If you get something like this:
drwxr-xr-x+ 3 kj staff Activity Monitor.app 102 Jul 19 01:36
0: group:everyone deny delete,limit_inherit
1: group:wheel allow list,addfile,search,add_subdirectory,delete_child,readattr,writeattr,readextattr,writeex tattr,readsecurity,file_inherit,directoryinherit
then you have ACL problems. There should be no acl entries on your apps.
Kj

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