Open In Dashboard Doesn't Work

It did, and suddenly I cannot capture any part of page.
The selection box appears and is highlighted. I elect the part I want to click on add, but nothing appears in dashboard following that.
No parental controls ever used, a new install with 10.5.1, not an upgrade.
Trashed the plist and repaired permissions.
Works fine on a MBP with 10.5.1

For those of you who have the problem, I discovered that you need atleast one Web Widget in your Widgets folder.
I copy one over from our MBP, and the functionality returned.

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