Input Sources Crashes System Preferences

I have two issues:
1) When trying to open Input Sources through 'System Preferences >> Keyboard >> Input Sources' I get a pop-up window saying 'System Preferences quit unexpectedly'...
2) Also - and I suspect this is a related issue - my menu bar keeps constantly blinking/flickering so that I am unable to select anything, nor use Spotlight. I have a feeling that Input Sources & Keyboards are causing the Menu Bar to blink/flicker but I can't try disable them due to my first issue
This is a recent issue that started ever since I started exploring a few new apps to customise my keyboard; namely KeyRemap4Macbook and DoubleCommand. I have also been using Ukelele to create custom keyboard layouts but the issues only started after installing DoubleCommand and KeyRemap...
Any help and solutions would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Zano.

Thank you for the swift response.
Update:
Not that it will affect much, but I forgot to mention that I had already uninstalled KeyRemap and DoubleCommand by the time I posted my message.
'Safebooting' didn't work (I had already tried but just tried again now).
Attempting to re-install Mavericks according to the link you gave me returned a message saying "Could not find installation information for this machine..."
I'm gonna try re-installing it using a .dmg file I was given when I had my machine repaired (it's been through a lot!).
Will update again soon.
Thanks,
Z.

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