Date & Time are wrong, how is this possible.

I am having a look at my inlaw's computer. Late 2008 15" MPB, 10.6.8/iLife 11.
One of the more strange things I've seen is that in Date & Time preferences the small section above the calendar where it should show the date i.e. 2/19/2012 is essentially missing. There's up and down arrows next to a tiny 1 character width box.
This is affecting multiple things within their user account in terms of files being tagged with the wrong date, in apps like mail, iphoto, etc. 11/24/11 is what is being tagged.
If you click on the clock in the menu bar, which I have set to display day of week, date, and time and is doing so correctly, just below it in the popup box that appears where it should display the same information and give the option for View as analog or digitial, it says Thursday, November 24, 2011 in gray instead of the correct date and time.
I have tried in a test user and issue does not persist.
I have tried SMC/PRAM resets. Persists.
I have tried deleting /etc/localtime. Persists.
I have tried 10.6.8 combo update. Persists.

Try this.
Go to System Preferences > Date & Time > Formats
In the section for Dates, click the Customize button. You should get a screen that looks something like this -
In the upper area, showing boxes for Short, Medium, Long, and Full, make sure that no text has been entered into any of those boxes. They should contain only blue ovals. If you need to replace any of those, drag the appropriate ones up from the lower area of that screen.
Note that the info shown in the blue ovals is representative, and is not intended to show current date info in that screen.

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