I can't open ANY of my System Preference panes.

I can't seem to find quite this exact problem in the archives anywhere, so here goes.
I can open the System Preferences application just fine. But I cannot open any of the individual preference panes. This is no matter how I try to access them: by clicking on an icon in the main System Preferences window, through Spotlight, via specific menu items like "Open Network Preferences..." in the WiFi menu...
Whenever I try to open a preference pane, the System Preferences title bar reads "Loading [Whatever]..." and the window just sits there. It's not frozen, per se; I can still hit the red (X) to quit without difficulty, for instance. I also get the following 3 messages in my Console:
09/13/12 2:49:27.339 p.m. System Preferences: +[NSPrefCrossFadeView createCGImageOfView:rect:superview:windowRect:]: unrecognized selector sent to class 0x7fff733d1570
09/13/12 2:49:27.339 p.m. System Preferences: +[NSPrefCrossFadeView createCGImageOfView:rect:superview:windowRect:]: unrecognized selector sent to class 0x7fff733d1570
09/13/12 2:49:27.344 p.m. System Preferences: (
0   CoreFoundation      0x00007fff880e0fc6 __exceptionPreprocess + 198
1   libobjc.A.dylib     0x00007fff8bfc0d5e objc_exception_throw + 43
2   CoreFoundation      0x00007fff8816d1ee +[NSObject doesNotRecognizeSelector:] + 190
3   CoreFoundation      0x00007fff880cde73 ___forwarding___ + 371
4   CoreFoundation      0x00007fff880cdc88 _CF_forwarding_prep_0 + 232
5   System Preferences 0x000000010ab14383 System Preferences + 37763
6   System Preferences 0x000000010ab12d32 System Preferences + 32050
7   Foundation          0x00007fff838e41aa __NSFireDelayedPerform + 392
8   CoreFoundation      0x00007fff88095c24 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_TIMER_CALLBACK_FUNCTION__ + 20
9   CoreFoundation      0x00007fff88095776 __CFRunLoopDoTimer + 534
10 CoreFoundation      0x00007fff88076001 __CFRunLoopRun + 1617
11 CoreFoundation      0x00007fff88075676 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 230
12 HIToolbox           0x00007fff8954e31f RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 277
13 HIToolbox           0x00007fff8955551b ReceiveNextEventCommon + 181
14 HIToolbox           0x00007fff89555456 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 62
15 AppKit              0x00007fff85580e31 _DPSNextEvent + 659
16 AppKit              0x00007fff85580735 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 135
17 AppKit              0x00007fff8557d071 -[NSApplication run] + 470
18 AppKit              0x00007fff857f9244 NSApplicationMain + 867
19 System Preferences 0x000000010ab0cb30 System Preferences + 6960
Can anybody tell me what's going on / what I can try to fix it? Let me know what I can clarify or what additional information I can provide.

Mac-Forums came through! This suggestion by harryb2448 did the trick for me:
Go to the Apple web site and download the latest Lion Combo Updater and see if that helps. http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1524
Thankfully I did not have to reinstall Lion entirely.

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