Missing Widgets: The light is on but no one is home

Since my upgrade to 10.5.6 (at least that is the only significant event i can think of) all my widgets have gone missing. Well they are there, somewhere... but they are no longer visible. It's as if they are somehow off the screen somewhere. I know they are still there because i can see all the property files for them in prefs, and those with an audible cue still make their noises.
I've tried resizing the display resolution in the hope that the widgets might get re-jigged. I've tried hunting the forums for people with similar problems but no luck.
Is there someway of forcing the widgets into the visible area of the display? Are there some properties i could adjust in prefs to move these hidden widgets into the centre of the screen? Am going nuts.
Any help much appreciated.

modius wrote:
Thanks for the pointer to the dashboard prefs file. Simply removing it got rid of all my existing widgets, so I opened up the old prefs file and had a look at changing the properties. For some reason all of the x/y values for my widgets were -30,000 to -110,000. Changing them to something like 100/100, saving and logging back in, put all my old friends back in the middle of my screen.
Happy now
you shouldn't have had to do that. removing the preference file didn't really remove your widgets. You just have to add them to the dashboard. start dashboard and click on the + in the lower left corner. all your widgets are listed at the bottom.

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