"Date and Time" freezes System Preferences - file to delete?

Well, I've had her up and running for about eight hours now and only one problem... just checking all the settings in System Preferences and when I select "Date & Time" System Preferences stops responding.
I migrated my 12" PB so there may have been a hinky file there - repairing permissions does nothing. Any .plist I might delete? The date and time are correct, by the way although, during set-up, the time & date pane just whizzed by, not giving me a chance to select.
Any thoughts, system wizards?

I have experienced the same problem. You can try deleting the /Home/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist, but that may not help. Be sure you have no menubar items running such as MenuMeters, iClock, etc. You might also try booting from the Installer Disc and running Disk Utility to repair the hard drive and permissions. Then do a shutdown for about five minutes before restarting. Upon restart clear PRAM by pressing and holding down the OPTION-COMMAND-P-R keys immediately after the chime and continue to hold them until you hear the restart chime another four times, then release and allow normal startup.
Migrating from a PowerPC Mac can be problematic because of the possibility of getting third-party plug-ins, preference panes, menubar modifiers, etc. that can potentially cause problems.

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