Is my Mac Help broken? please help...

My mac help fails to respond to anything I give it now..... whether I type in a search topic or click on any of the ready links.
Just wondering whether anyone else's mac help has been playing up? Everything else like safari help are working fine, its just mac help which does nothing when I try to use it.
thanks everyone

first i did this:
"Help Viewer displays a blank window
Symptom
You launch Help Viewer but, instead of displaying the default Help information, the window is blank.
Causes
1. Corrupted Help Viewer preferences files or cache.
2. Missing MacHelp.help file.
Solutions
1. Corrupted Help Viewer preferences files or cache....."
then I did this:
"Help Viewer links do not work
Symptom
When you click on a link in a Help document, the display does not change to the linked document. In particular, this may happen in Help for FileMaker® Pro and AppleWorks®.
Causes
• Change in the default font sized used by Help Viewer under Jaguar.
• Corrupted Help Viewer preferences or cache.
Solution
• If you are using Jaguar and have changed the default font sized used by Help Viewer, see the AppleCare Knowledge Base document "Mac OS X: Help Viewer Links Do Not Respond."
• If you have not changed the default font size used by Help Viewer under Jaguar, or are using either Panther or Tiger, then do the following.
• Quit (Command-Q) Help Viewer if it is open.
• Open your Home > Library > Preferences folder.
• Trash the following three files, if extant.
1. com.apple.help.plist
2. com.apple.helpui.plist
3. com.apple.helpviewer.plist
• Open your Home > Library > Caches folder.
• Trash the com.apple.helpui folder.............."
so, where does the replacing the MacHelp.help go?..........I'm assuming users>library>documentation>help>MacHelp.help and I have replaced it with a fresh new MacHelp.Help file extracted from the guts of my disk one installer.
and it STILL DOES NOT WORK.
the links from Help viewer do not work...search does not work.
i'm almost ready to reinstall my entire os (already) to get back to square one with the help thing and then what when it breaks again?
this is entirely frustrating.

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