My dashboard no longer works, can anyone help?

I dont have a clue what ive done but my dashboard no longer works.
it will open, i.e screen goes greyish colour, but there are no widgets on the screen and even when i try to put them on it closes automatically.
ive had a look in the forums and some people say that its the parental controlls, now i did have them on but ive turn it completely off now so why is it still not working?
help please.

Standard mac advice since probably system 4 or 6: whenever there's a problem, first thing is throw out the preferences. Try tossing the dashboard.plist in your library.

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