CS3 swatch panel corrupted

So, my swatch panel is totally garbled.
Any new swatches come in as black. The Pantone selector appears in front of any sliders. It's basically impossible to modify or create swatches.
Have tried all the usual things I know how to do on a mac, permissions, reinstall, trashing preferences etc, to no avail.
Bit of a nightmare to be honest. Oh how I hate macs. Any ideas?

Not impolite atall, my fault for not reading your link properly and assuming that my quick prefs trash would do the job.
I'll definitely pass this on as a troubleshooting option to my colleagues, don't think any of them know about it either!
Thanks again, I was starting to get quite frustrated and very happy to find out it was so easy to fix.

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