Open Dialog boxes have disappeared

In OS X 10.8.2, the open dialog boxes stopped appearing in Pages and Preview. Also, all the menu text in the Mac Kindle app has disappeared. I have run Disk Utility, reinstalled the OS, the Kindle app and Pages. No change. I get Open Dialogs in other apps. Clearly, the Pages and Preview issues are related. I am guessing the Kindle app problem, if it is related, provides a clue. Can anyone help?

Thank you, but this did not change anything. I am still having the same problems:
1) No open dialog for Preview
2) No open dialog for Pages
3) Most text missing from Amazaon Kindle application control screen and dialog boxes (almost all titles, Library, Collection, mouse overs, search box, all blank. Oddly, if I type in something in the search box, it works. I just can't read anything that comes up. I'm inserting a screen shot of someof this behavior - I did a search of the word "seek" in the selected book.)

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