Dashboard Widgets Gone

I have been using Dashboard on occasion and I have about 8-10 widgets set up (world time, weather, CBS news, etc.). All of a sudden yesterday, I went into Dashboard and all widgets were gone. I tried adding everything back, but whenever I tried to execute a function, Dashboard closed and sent me back to the desktop. Very strange.
Has anyone ever experienced this; or does anyone have a suggestion?
Thanks in advance.

I think I may have answered my own question by reading further on in this forum. I found the below link which addresses this issue as it relates to parental controls. I'm pretty sure this is what caused the problem for me.
I still invite any additional thoughts.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307022

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