Open Recent menu option not working

My open recent menu option under the "file" menu is greyed out and I can'g access my recent projects. Any ideas why this is? I'm using a Mac that has a few different users under different Logins on OSX Lion 10.7.4. I've heard that some preferences may need to be deleted but I don't want to mess up my system and delete the wrong file! Any help would be appreciated.

Where are you saving to?
Try repairing Permissions/Disk in Disk Utility.
Peter

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