Keyboard Shortcuts Crashes when selected in system prefrences.

I added a shortcut in my keyboard shortcuts and system prefrences crashed on me and now every time I go to the keyboard shortcuts tab system prefrences crashes. I deleted the system prefrences plist and tried searching around to try and revert my settings back to before but it isn't working. Anybody have any ideas what to do?
I repaired permissions, used preferential treatment, and many other things. There has to be some plist file or prefrence file that I can delete to get rid of the changes that caused the crash.
Any help would be great.

Have you tried using the application, Preferential Treatment. This helps fix clean up any corrupted plist files.
Here's a link to it:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/22790
Also another application that does wonders is YASU (Yet Another System Utility):
http://www.jimmitchelldesigns.com/yasu.html
Download the Panther Version, since you are running 10.3
Then Select theses options:
Daily Cron, Weekly Cron, Monthly Cron, Repair Permissions, Update Prebindings, Clear System Cache, Clear User Cache, Clear Font Cache, (If you want you can clear the logs also, I do)
Also, to help isolate the issue, try creating a new user to see if it is user specific or system wide.
Let me know if this helps you... If not there are more options.

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