Problems locking settings and preferences.

So, as the subject says, When I click the lock button, to lock my preferences and settings, the lock does not close. It just flinches and stays open. I find this very disturbing and have had to rebuild my system from an unprotected infiltration and have never run into this issue before. Anyone else having the same problems? I first noticed it when I attempted to lock my time machine settings.

Works fine here on all five systems. Did you install SL as an upgrade or install on a freshly formatted drive? If the former then you may have had a dysfunctional system to start with prior to upgrading. Erasing the drive and reinstalling from scratch should fix the problem. However, before doing that try deleting the /Home/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist file. In addition there will be one or more com.apple.systempreferences.xxx.plist file located in the /Home/Library/Preferences/ByHost/ folder, too. Delete as well. Restart the computer.

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