Remote not working - system files...?

hi, sorry for the longish post, gonna detail what i've been doing and the other problems i've dealt with, for background. think the only problem left now tho is with the remote.
i coincidentally used my apple remote for the first time yesterday, and it was working fine, with front row and mediacentre.
then later on yesterday, i managed to screw up a lot of my system files using a program called 'monolingual' (it removed the ppc code from the files, leaving only the intel, end result being that rosetta stopped working). ended up reinstalling osx (10.4.6) from the discs that came with the macbook. from what i'd read, i'd been expecting to do an archive & install, but that wasn't offered, it just did an 'upgrade' (tho it was the same version) install of osx over the top.
this fixed rosetta, and other than having to reinstall a couple of programs everything seems to be working normally, except that the remote isn't working at all. the macbook doesn't respond to it at all, the button combination to pair the remote to the mb has no effect, and there aren't even any options in the security preferences relating to the remote.
any ideas how to fix this? any idea which system files are relevant to the remote, that might need refreshing? other suggestions?
thanks,
dave
Macbook Mac OS X (10.4.6)

yep it showed up in the hardware test.. then actually when osx booted back up, it complained about my logitech mouse driver not being installed properly, so i reinstalled that... then rebooted and it complained about some other extension mouse driver, so i reinstalled that... and when it rebooted again, the remote works again!
guess the dodgy drivers were fouling up the usb stuff (yep today i learned that the ir receiver, and the isight, run on usb. today i also restarted my macbook more times than i have in the last few weeks since i got it).
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