IControl suddenly not happy

My wife uses Garage Band about once every 6 months to create music. For Christmas '06, I bought her an iControl and she's been very happy with it. But, tonight when she plugged it in, it began to exhibit some very poor behavior. Any of the toggle buttons (play, mute, record enable, etc.) work very, very briefly before reverting to their original state. Its almost as if the midi messages they are sending are being mirrored back. And the volume pots don't work.
I've run Diskwarrior and Onyx on her machine to no avail. The iControl works on my iBook under Garageband as well as her copy of Logic Express on her machine. And it functioned properly the last time she used it. So I'm guessing it got broken during an automatic update during the last 6 months or so.
So, I'm thinking we're going to have to re-install Garageband to fix this. I'm guessing that we'll have to delete GB from the Apps folder and trash its...
...and in typing this post I realized I hadn't trashed GB's preferences yet. This solved the problem! But, in the interest of leaving information for anyone else with the same issue, here's how I did it:
1. Open a Finder window.
2. Search for "com.apple.garageband"
3. In the case of GB, you will get three results. Drag all three to the trash and empty it.
4. Re-launch and enjoy!
This is a good troubleshooting technique for any misbehaving app. Just search for "com.{manufacturer name}.{application name}" and trash the results. Be aware, though, any applications that require a "challenge and responce" type of authorization will probably require you to re-enter this info.

also to keep from confusing anyone that might read this, step 2 no longer works in 10.5, you have to look for it by hand, or explicitly tell spotlight to search the ~/Library/ folder

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    Charles
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    jcombobox3.setMaximumRowCount(3);
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    jpanel.add(jcombobox3);
    jlabel9 = new JLabel();
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    c.add(jcheckbox1);
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    c.add(jlabel10);
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    setSize(750,300);
    show();
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    public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e)
    System.exit(0);

    I have an open source layout called AttachLayout that a member of this forum gave to me awhile back. It greatly assisted me and you can check it out here:
    http://www.compaq.com/java/download/attachlayout/
    It's easy and intuitive.
    Let me know if you need more assistance or have difficulty getting the classes.

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