Dashboard does not open anymore!

A week ago, my dashboard stopped working, and soon, my harddrive went corrupt. I start my computer, and it would never go to the login screen. I finally used a 9 pin to 6 pin firewire cable from my macbook pro unibody to my mac mini, and set my macbook pro in target disk mode, and ran diskwarrior on my mac mini. My computer now works, and i can confidently say that DiskWarrior is one of the best pieces of software I have ever seen. Now, everything works, except dashboard. I try clicking the icon, hitting the dashboard key on my keyboard, and i even downloaded and tried to install a new widget, but that did not work either. I can still see my widget preferences files in User/Library/Preferences, but dashboard refuses to show up. I have also tried reinstalling Applications through the Macbook Applications Install DVD, but that did not fix anything. If ANYone has suggestions to get dashboard up and running, i would really appreciate it. I have some stuff written in there that i really need. I can get them through the pref files, but i'd rather have dashboard working in one piece
Thanks!
-Mano

HI,
Did you actually trash this file? com.apple.dashboard.plist? From /Users/YourName/Library/Preferences ???
If that doesn't work, try downloading and installing the 10.5.6 combo update available here:
http://support.apple.com/downloads/MacOS_X_10-5-6_ComboUpdate
If you do this, repair disk permissions before and after the update.
Launch Disk Utility. (Applications/Utilities) Select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select FirstAid, then click: Repair Disk Permissions. Quit DU when it's finished and reboot.
Might not be a bad idea to check the boot disk for errors just in case and only takes a few minutes even if you have used DiskWarrior.
Restart your Mac while holding down the C key, pressing the power button and inserting your restore disk all at the same time. An Installer window will open, but do not proceed with any installations. Instead, from the Menu Bar, select Utilities > Disk Utility. In the Disk Utility window click First Aid, and then click Verify. If Disk Utility reports errors, click Repair. When Disk Utility is finished, from the Menu Bar, select Utilities/Startup Disk. Select MacintoshHD 10.x.x and click Restart.
You could try extracting the Dashboard app from your restore disk(s) using Pacifist
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