My "Mac Help" window is crashing....

so every time i open the mac help window and type something in the search box and hit return the whole windows just closes. I'm not sure why this is happening. am i doing something wrong?

Kappy wrote:
Do you have any such folders on your computer? I do not find any in the Caches folder on mine. They disappeared after installing Leopard. I found that simply deleting the .plist files fixed the problem in Leopard.
yes, I've got them along with the plist files. I have com.apple.helpdata and com.apple.helpui in ~/Library/Caches.

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    Identifier: WindowServer
    Version: ??? (???)
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