System Preference freezes when setting up Parental Controls

Hi,
I am the Admin user of my MacBook Pro InteL C2D. I'm using Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11. I had set up a 'Standard' Account on my laptop for my flatmate to use. But when I click on the Parental Controls of this standard account, the whole preference pane freezes. And it stays that way until I force quit it. What could be the problem?
I literally gone through every forum regarding this problem and almost everyone of them says to delete the preference file(s). So, I deleted the preference.plist and preference.account.plist file from Preferences folder in Library. No use.
So, I ultimately backed up my data and went for a complete 'Erase and Install'. Sure the computer is a lot faster now, but the above problem still persists!!
Help please.
Cheers.

Hi nite41, and a warm welcome to the forums!
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, when that completes...
Trash this file...
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist
Reboot.
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.
Any diff?

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