Dashboard not loading widgets + Crashing the Dock

I updated to Leopard yesterday, and today my dashboard stopped working. I can bring it up on my screen, but none of the widgets load - its just their blank skins. I can add more widgets, but they do not load. Also, when I try to close a widget the dashboard+dock just crash. What is going on here?
Please help?

From what you write here, there seem to be other issues involved. I am not sure if the applications were in reality deleted (perhaps moved?) but there will be no gain in disk space until the Trash is emptied.
You are clearly au fait with the OS (not everyone would be looking inside packets or playing around in Terminal), so I am sure that you are able to make more checks than I could suggest. I know that there have been problems with renaming of Home folders, or accounts losing admin privileges and would tend to agree that there comes a time, when a clean start might be more useful than pulling one's hair out and shouting at the kids or kicking the dog.
The way to get the applications back is to use the packages on the install disks; the way to make sure is to start again and since my Archive and Install (or the erase and install on the eMac -- again my fault) everything has been smooth.

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Hi,
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Thanks

Hi, WA.
This answer depends on what you mean by "the dock." I'm assuming the Dock, since you stated "dock" not the Widget Bar.
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