Screen capture failed

We recenty got a new iMac at our house, but there are a few problems. We went through the setup, and transfered all the files from our old iMac (an old flatpanel with the dome hard drive underneath the screen) which was running Mac OS X 10.3.9. Now there seems to be a problem with Screen capture.
We also recently bought another family member a new iMac (22" iMac 2.2 GHz [?] 1 GB Ram w/ Mac OS X 10.5). That computer came with Mac OS X 10.4 installed, but came with a 10.5 CD. We did a normal setup without trasfering any files, and Screen capture works fine.
Details:
When I try to use screen capture, I get a message saying
"*Screen capture failed*
The attempt to take a screen capture has failed. The
error is: 'Unable to create type string.'"
Any solutions?

Open Disk Utility, select your system drive (I think by default, they are named "Macintosh HD"), just select whichever drive is your OSX one, then click REPAIR PERMISSIONS.
It will take some time to complete, particularly if you haven't done it in a while.
Also, you should do this BEFORE and AFTER any installation that uses an INSTALLER.
And like I said before, it's kind of a "Odd things 101". Lots of little weird behaviors can be remedied by using it.
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