Keyboard Viewer Appears Every Login

Every time I login (boot or wake) the Keyboard Viewer window appears, and I can't get it to stop.
In System Preferences > International > Input Menu I have disabled it / enabled it / disabled it, but to no effect.
The machine has just been to Apple for a replacement keyboard/top plate.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Matt

Thanks.
nb. had to reboot, to take effect.

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hi all,
my new macbook pro 13" is having a problem when i try to type in arabic language or even in english in keyboard viewer it crashes and gives me a blue screen with closing every other application.
i have tested it with other user name and did not happen so something wrong i've done that had lead to this and i'm not very good at mac as im new to mac.
Can anyone know what has happen to it.
thanks...

Muhyee wrote:
i have tested it with other user name and did not happen
This means you probably have a bad .plist in Home/Library/Preferences. Trash the one with KeyboardViewer in its name.

Keyboard viewer and font choice

Hello...
I seem to remember pre 10.5 being able to choose different fonts to display in the keyboard viewer. With 10.5 that ability seems to have disappeared. Is there a way to bring it back? This is important to me because, e.g. different versions of unicode Hebrew font will be more or less accurate in portraying the characters on the keyboard viewer.
Thanks.

Tom Gewecke wrote:
Keyboard Viewer is pretty much useless without the ability to select the font.
It certainly isn't useless for me. Could you explain why you think that in more detail? Do you often need to use fonts with non-standard mappings?
Sure... and I frequently use Keyboard viewer to easily find, view and/or insert characters from a specific font. Particularly for glyphs, dingbats, ornaments, etc.
Here's an example:
I'm working in Fireworks.
I have a font called "Type Embellishments One"
I know there is a flower but have no clue which key.
Pre-Leopard:
Open Keyboard Viewer choose "Type Embellishments One" from the drop-down
Toggle modifier keys to find glyph.
Click picture of flower on the keyboard (which happens to be shift-y)
Character is inserted.
Leopard:
Open Keyboard Viewer
See that there is no way to choose "Type Embellishments One" from the drop-down =/
Open Character Palette
View: Glyphs > Click Glyph Catalog tab
Choose "Type Embellishments One" from font drop-down
Scroll through list til I find the flower I'm looking for and double-click it.
Get error: "Couldn't set application font" (which is already set, btw)
Try dragging and dropping from char palette to Fireworks text editor
Question mark gets input, not shift-y.
Character Palette doesn't show which key invokes Unicode F059, so I end up just going back to Fireworks and hitting every key until I find the glyph I'm looking for.
In Tiger, (and +*every other version of Mac OS since KeyCaps was introduced*+ ) you used to be able to just pop open keyboard viewer, choose any active font from the drop-down, hold your modifier keys to find the character you want, and click the key with your mouse to insert the character. Simple. Elegant. Exactly what KeyCaps was designed for.
Leopard removed this functionality. I don't understand why.

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