Finder half-crash activating File Sharing in Leopard.

Whenever i try to activate File Sharing the top menu bar disappears and I can only force shutdown my mac.
Here's how it goes: I click System preferences-> Sharing -> File Sharing-> "+" button to add a shared folder.
Whatever folder I'll choose, it won't appear in the list of shared folders plus after closing the system preferences window the top menu bar will disappear completely. Then the mouse won't be able to click, the keyboard won't respond (except for putting the mac mini to sleep with ctrl+alt+eject).
Then the only way to restart is to force shutdown the computer.
Operating system 10.5.8, Mac mini from august 2007 with 2 gb ram.
Thank to anyone who will help me, I can't have a shared network anymore!
/Marco

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