My iMac wireless / network preferences crashing / freezing / not working

My imac recently began to have trouble connecting to my home wifi. This started last month unexpectedly.
Some of the issues I am dealing with:
I am able to connect to any wifi. I can navigate to router settings (192.168.x.xxx). I am running Lion 10.7.
Anytime I try to navigate to System Preferences > Network, the network window goes unresponsive and I am unable to see / edit network settings.
I have moved system preference plisk files to set my preferences to default. This has not helped much (by much, I mean it got me to be able to see network options but it freezes instantly - the network window)
I cannot get internet access.
I did a disk utility repair and found a corrupted HD. I ran the permission repair and disk repair utility after I reboot the mac with command+r.
While in a Command+R boot environment you have an option to open a safari browser. This browser is able to connect to the internet and access all internet activity.
Does anyone have any advice for me?

Anytime I try to navigate to System Preferences > Network, the network window goes unresponsive and I am unable to see / edit network settings.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Then try the action that you're having trouble with again. Select any messages that appear in the Console window. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

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