Force quit systems preferences dialog box

Please help. Yesterday a "friend" tried to set up a wireless connection to a printer from my laptop. Since he does not know Macs, I asked him to stop his tinkering which he did. Now, a dialog box comes up that says: "Another application has changed your network settings" Upon cliking the OK button, the box remains - it does not close until I force quit. This prevents me from even getting into the system preferences to check what has been changed. How can I circumvent this dialog box? All else seems to be working fine; I can still connect to the internet using wireless.
Thanks for any advice you can give.

This is a common bug after the Oct 2008 security update. It appears you can try several things, as mentioned in Macintouch Reader Reports Oct 27 and later:
http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/security/topic4307.html
and go to Oct 27, 2008 and read several subsequent entries.
To recap:
-Try the latest security update.
-You might be able to dismiss the dialog by clicking at exactly the right moment.
-Or, upon a restart, go to system prefs/security and check, "Require password to unlock each secure system preference"
-you can delete several network and location preference files, but then you have to recreate them all manually.
and there are more suggestions that I haven't tried. I deleted preferences and had to manually reenter location data, which was a hassle.

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