No Text In Dialogue Box

I not too long ago installed Snow Leopard and ever since then, whenever a dialogue box pops up there is no text in it. For example, whenever I install or update, the box that pops up to ask for my password doesn't have anything in it. The buttons don't even have words on them.
Is anyone else having this problem? Is there a way to fix this?

Then, there's corruption or confliction within that user account. Since the issue is specific to your original user account, you can proceed in two ways. One is to create a new admin user account, log into it, launch the apps to ensure that they work normally, make a list of the preference files (plists) located in /username/Library/Preferences/, including any in the ByHost subfolder, log back into the original account, move everything on that other account's list from the original account's Preferences folder into a newly created folder on the Desktop, log out and back in, and see if the problem goes away. If so, you can copy the ones in the Desktop folder (one at time) back into /Preferences/, restart, and see if the problem returns. If so, you've identified the corrupt/conflicting one. Continue with all of them until isolating the bad ones. That'll save you the trouble of resetting preferences.
The second way is much more detailed and I'll not burden you with the steps unless the above doesn't fix the issue.
BTW, if this doesn't do it, start your own thread.

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