ICloud crashing system preferences

Installed the 10.7.2 update this morning on both my iMac (Mid 2007) and MacBook (Late 2008) and everytime I try to open the iCloud preference pane it crashes. Activity monitor shows system prefrences is using loads of CPU and memory resources and then usually comes up as not responding.
This sometimes happens on the Mail Contacts and Calendars preference pane as well. All other preference panes are ok, sometimes a little slow but still work.
I have created a test account on my MacBook and it will load all system preferences fine including iCloud. I did a clean install of Lion about a week ago on both MacBook and iMac and migrated only Users, Documents and Applications. Did not tick the settings option.
Can anyway help me with this issue. Many thanks.

Fixed for me....
after getting a new computer, i used time machine to restore my most recent backup. (from yosemite 10.10.2)
clicked iCloud in system prefs and i just hang. everything else about the restore seemed to work great.
i read on another forum... (http://gotoanswer.stanford.edu/?q=could+not+load+iCloud+preference+pane+and+coul d+not+load+internet+accounts+preference+…) that i had to do with a permissions error, in my case the "address book" folder in library was set to read only. so i removed the folder (to the desktop) rebooted, and problem solved. i could click pref panes iCloud and it was no longer stuck.
if other people are having the problem, it may be a permissions error in some other folder.
-andy

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