Preferences not opening after asking for restart

As we all know, when using 3rd party preferences panes the preferences asks you to restart (I think to go into 32/63-bit mode)
But when I press ok, it quits then doesn't open again, It's extremely annoying and cripples my productivity and use of this computer.
3rd party prefpanes I have installed are:
DivX
Flip4Mac WMV
Geektool
Glimmer Blocker
Growl
MacFUSE
MultiClitch (just installed this, so it's not the reason)
Pen Tablet (wacom)
Perian
SynergyKM
Version Cue CS3

hmm, I looked at your screenshot again and it seems your system preferences.app is much smaller than mine. let's check if it even contains 32-bit code.
run the following command in terminal 9copy and paste please)
file /Applications/System Preferences.app/Contents/MacOS/System Preferences
it will list available architectures for this app. normally it will list 3 - PPC, 32bit intel and 64-bit intel. the output should look like this
/Applications/System Preferences.app/Contents/MacOS/System Preferences: Mach-O universal binary with 3 architectures
/Applications/System Preferences.app/Contents/MacOS/System Preferences (for architecture x86_64): Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
/Applications/System Preferences.app/Contents/MacOS/System Preferences (for architecture i386): Mach-O executable i386
/Applications/System Preferences.app/Contents/MacOS/System Preferences (for architecture ppc7400): Mach-O executable ppc
what do you get? btw, did you do anything special when installing Snow leopard? did you use a regular SL install DVD, did you customize the install? did you use any tools that remove stuff from the installation like Monolingual?

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