Dashboard Doesn't Work In User/Non-Admin Account

While Dashboard works in my Admin. account, it doesn't consistently work in the user accounts. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's not. If it is there it is probably because of something I have fiddled around with in the accounts and parental controls but I can't remeber what I did!
Clicking to activate dashboard produces nothing and dragging icons to the desktop (after clicking the + sign) gives nothing. (blurriness/waves, then blank..)
I have tried repairing permissions and deleting various .plist files as suggested on the forums but to no use. What should I do?
iMac G5 iSight Mac OS X (10.4.7)

I have precisely the same problem as the poster. DB works in admin and not in non admin. The permissions were ok. I had not tried deleting plists. I did download another widget and then without seeming to have done anything apposite it worked. Now after restarts and close down no go in non admin.
I have by the way got all the widgets in the HD Library so as I am told they are available to all users.
As for the reference to parental controls, 'dashboard.app' can only be got to through the 'locate' button and when I try that the message is that the app won't work under the restrictions on the non admin. He is set to be forbidden some apps like Apple script and Terminal. He does not have full access to the system prefs, or ibnstaller, what I think are sensible erstrictions. So what facilities does 'dashboard.app' require? Can't find info in the KB.
Incidentally when I try another posters recommendations to kill dashboard processes in Activity monitor the processes merely pop up again under a different PID. They are all running under the admin user where I performed this action. Must I effectively have to try AM under the 'faulty' non admin to test the Activity Monitor kill? That still leaves the issue of the facilities needed by dashboard to run under the non admin.
After all what need should there be for dashboard in an admin account. Its 'proper' use is the 'normal' account, in this case a non admin.

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