Menu Bar items read-only in 10.5.2

After 10.5.2 upgrade, I'm unable to use a lot of drop-down menus for Menu Bar items such as Bluetooth, Airport, Date&Time, International etc.
Spotlight and third-party menus (Little Snitch, MiniBatteryLogger) are OK, but system ones became all-gray (in case of Bluetooth and Airport) or just read-only ( selection of menu item doesn't do anything).
I have to do System Preferences->Network to switch between WiFi networks.
Is anyone experiencing similar issue? Any idea how to fix it?

Well, looks like an issue came from SIMBL Plugins, such as WiFind.
Just move the "WiFind.bundle" from the "/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins/"
Somehow, if automatic login is set you are not getting "System UI Error, plugin disabled" and stuck with read-only menus.
I've created another user account, logged in as another user and immediately got "System UI Error".
After removing WiFind.bundle and reboot everything came back as suppose to be.

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