Energy Saver Preferences won't load

Hi,
I have a late 2011 MBP running Lion 10.7.4 and under system preferences I cannot open Energy Saver Preferences, Desktop and Screen Saver Preferences and Spotlight Preferences. I have googled and attempted all suggestions with no luck. Here is a rundown of what I have attempted so far.
1) Verifty Disk Permissions
2) Repair Disk Permissions
3) Verify Disk
4) Repair Disk
5) Went to /Library/Cache and deleted the two com.apple.preference.cache files
6) Used Terminal to do sudo commands
7) And Finally...did a fresh install of Lion.
Now I will copy my log from Console and maybe somebody can help me out...
7/13/12 1:01:28.128 PM System Preferences: Error loading /System/Library/PreferencePanes/EnergySaver.prefPane/Contents/MacOS/EnergySaver : dlopen(/System/Library/PreferencePanes/EnergySaver.prefPane/Contents/MacOS/Ener gySaver, 265): Symbol not found: _OBJC_CLASS_$_NSObject
Referenced from: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iLifeMediaBrowser.framework/Versions/A/iLifeM ediaBrowser
Expected in: /usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib
in /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iLifeMediaBrowser.framework/Versions/A/iLifeM ediaBrowser
7/13/12 1:01:28.128 PM System Preferences: [NSPrefPaneBundle instantiatePrefPaneObject] (/System/Library/PreferencePanes/EnergySaver.prefPane): principalClass is nil.
If anyone has any suggestions please help.

A re-install won't touch anything in your Home folder.
Try this...
Quit System Preferences
Go to your Finder "Go" menu hold the option key to choose "Library"
and delete these files/folders:
/Preferences/com.apple.system preferences .plist
/Preferences/com.apple.screensaver.<12digitHexNumber>.plist
/Preferences/By Host/com.apple.systempreferences.xxx.plist of them)
and com.apple.PrefPane.Network.xxx.plist (the X's will be numbers)
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