Keyboard and Mouse Preferences pane is blank???

Hi everybody,
that's my first post into Apple discussions, so I hope I'm posting into the right forum
I can't change my keyboard or mouse settings anymore since the pref pane is blank (white with nothing on it).
Where can that come from??
Thanks for any advice!
Cheers
Livia

No need to thank me
I just like to always have "clean" threads and if the answer is somewhere else, I link to that particular thread
Otherwise everybody who looks for a solution for the same question would have to search through the forum to find my other thread
That's like always leaving a place for the next to come just the way I would like that place to be when I arrive...

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