Still No Preferences

GarageBand has no preferences. I've tried deleting the .plist files and anything else that says GarageBand in the preferences folder, but it still doesn't work. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Mary.

Some additional info on this problem:
1) We've updated permissions on the boot disk, and replaced the garage band .plist file, but preferences still doesn't appear in GB.
2) The following error message is appearing in the log file:
2006-03-28 20:20:53.252 GarageBand[2207] * Assertion failure in -[NSMenu itemAtIndex:], Menus.subproj/NSMenu.m:713
2006-03-28 20:20:53.355 GarageBand[2207] GarageBand: Invalid parameter not satisfying: (index >= 0) && (index < (_itemArray ? CFArrayGetCount((CFArrayRef)_itemArray) : 0))
So.... any clues as to why the program isn't resolving the preferences menu item?
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Mary.<br>
G4 Mac OS X (10.4.4)

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