Page Setup dialog can't be acknowledged

Apparently I am not able to set the paper size (US letter, A4..) from the Page Setup dialog in my main admin account after updating to 10.5.x (in any application using the standard dialog, e.g TextEdit)
I can change all values, click the "?" to get the help, but the "OK" button simple doesn't trigger any action. I get a short colour change both on "enter" and on clicking the button (indicating the the button was clicked), but the window stays open. Only the "Cancel" button closes it.
I tried to login into a second account on my Mac. There the dialog works fine. So I would guess it's a broken file/permission issue in my library. I tried to find the problematic preference file, but failed. Could someone point me in a good direction ?
Thanks.... Martin

I have had the same problem on a brand new Mac Mini, with a pre-installed system 10.5. I could print OK so long as I didn't try and change page setup.
I actually discovered it when I started to install Boot Camp: the first thing it tells you to do is to print the instructions and when you click on that there´s a page setup dialogue. I could cancel it, or change the page percentage size, which produced weird numbers as described above and then freezes so I had to use "force quit". So that was the end of that idea, although I´ve since downloaded a pdf from Apple support.)
I also tried in Firefox, TextEdit, MSWord (my own copy, transferred via Migration Assistant from the G4), Preview, all wwith the same result.
I thought it had something to do with the system updates that immediately turned up when I started using the machine 3 days ago, so I have just done an archive and install, with no improvement. I´ve also tried the format-change trick described above, with no luck.
There is one thing that has worked though:
When I started using the machine it set me up an admin ID. When I migrated my previous stuff and settings from the G4 I took my ID from there, also with admin privileges. I was logged in with the latter when I discovered the page setup problem. I have just switched IDs, logged in with the one that´s "native" to the new machine -- and the page setup works just fine. Maybe it´s something to do with different permission settings for the 2 IDs, somewhere deep in one of the libraries, because after all page setup is part of the System, not a particular program or printer.
Does anyone from Apple read these posts. Is there someone somewhere out there who can explain what´s going on?
Good luck to everyone else with this problem
Naomi

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