HELP!! Lost the "character palette" - how do I retrieve it?

Somehow I managed to lose the "character palette" - it froze, and I couldn't get it to close, so I shut down the computer, but when it restarted, the character palette would not open. Or rather, a blank "ghost" of it appeared for a couple of seconds, then vanished. Clicking on either "show palette" or "hide palette" does nothing. I tried Spotlight to try to locate it on the hard drive, but nothing that showed up led me to it.
Any ideas? Will I have to reinstall it?
Thanks for any suggestions.......
Sophiecat

It sounds like you may have a bad font. That happened
to me once and I discovered Character Palette was
very sensitive to bad fonts. You might also try
deleting:
"/Users/yourname/Library/Preferences/com.apple.CharPal
etteServer.plist"
If removing that doesn't do it I suspect you'll have
to start looking at your fonts to find the one
causing the problem. In my case it was an old Adobe
Garamonde font I had installed not long before I
discovered the Character Palette problem.
Francine
Hi Francine,
THANK YOU-- THANK YOU-- THANK YOU!!!
Your suggestion worked like a dream. I truly appreciate your responding so quickly.
Regards,
Sophiecat

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