Disk Utility quits unexpectedly

Hi
I have recently noticed that disk utility quits unexpectedly whenever I open it. Here's what I've tried so far:
1. Boot in recovery mode, and repair permissions and verify the disk (I only have a single internal disk), which works fine and says it is successful.
2. Trash any DiskUtility preferences files (local and in /Library/Preferences)
3. Reset my PRAM
4. Try disk utility from a different user
but none of this has helped. When I click on the "send information to Apple" the relevant bit seems to be:
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000068
I'm running Lion 10.7.1 on a quad core MacPro with 12Gb RAM.
Any ideas?
Regards/Thanks
Shaun

Hi
I took your suggestion but with a slightly different twist and it worked... Rather than do a full re-install of Lion, I inserted the lion boot disk I had created, and righ-clicked on Packages/BaseSystemBinaries.pkg and just installed that, assuming that's where Disk Utility would live.
Took 3 or 4 minutes, and Disk Utility is now back! Yay!
Many thanks.
Shaun

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