System Preferences crashing when Screen Saver window opens

I have been having a bit of a problem for some time now (a couple weeks).
One day, I noticed my screensaver was gone, and it turned into just the name of my hard drive and the Apple symbol moving periodically on a black background. So, I tried to open the screen saver options to change it, but when I open the Screen Saver tab, the list shows up briefly with nothing on it, then it crashes. I get this error message:
The application System Preferences quit unexpectedly. The problem may have been caused by the FlashPlayer- 10.4-10.5 plug-in.
I have re-installed Flash, but it hasn't helped. Any help on this issue would be outstanding! Thanks

Has anyone found the answer to this problem? I have installed and uninstalled flash player several times but whenever it instals my sytems preferences die, which is very frustrating. I receive the same message as Lazula.

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    System Preferences [141]
    Path:       
    /Applications/System Preferences.app/Contents/MacOS/System Preferences
    Identifier: 
    com.apple.systempreferences
    Version:    
    5.2 (5.2)
    Build Info: 
    SystemPrefsApp-1510800~10
    Code Type:  
    X86 (Native)
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    Interval Since Last Report:     
    1123 sec
    Crashes Since Last Report:      
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    Per-App Interval Since Last Report:  44 sec
    Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   2
    Date/Time:  
    2013-09-29 16:22:29.122 -0500
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    Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L31a)
    Report Version:  6
    Anonymous UUID:  FDCA690E-303C-4AB7-826C-02C41CC95FE3
    Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
    Exception Codes: 0x000000000000000a, 0x0000000013cb0000
    Crashed Thread:  0
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    0   com.apple.ImageIO.framework  
    0x92bd36b3 _CGImagePluginIdentifyPNG + 6
    1   com.apple.ImageIO.framework  
    0x92bd33d6 _CGImageSourceBindToPlugin + 301
    2   com.apple.ImageIO.framework  
    0x92bd3a10 CGImageSourceGetCount + 55
    3   com.apple.AppKit         
    0x95157707 +[NSBitmapImageRep _imagesWithData:hfsFileType:extension:zone:expandImageContentNow:includeAllReps :] + 583
    4   com.apple.AppKit         
    0x9515749f +[NSBitmapImageRep _imageRepsWithData:hfsFileType:extension:expandImageContentNow:] + 115
    5   com.apple.AppKit         
    0x9515708f +[NSImageRep _imageRepsWithContentsOfFile:expandImageContentNow:] + 679
    6   com.apple.AppKit         
    0x951598b5 +[NSImageRep imageRepsWithContentsOfFile:] + 49
    7   com.apple.AppKit         
    0x95159802 -[NSImage initWithContentsOfFile:] + 52
    8   ....frameworks.preferencepanes
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    9   com.apple.systempreferences  
    0x000052ff 0x1000 + 17151
    10  com.apple.systempreferences  
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    11  com.apple.systempreferences  
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    12  com.apple.systempreferences  
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    13  com.apple.systempreferences  
    0x000038e7 0x1000 + 10471
    14  com.apple.systempreferences  
    0x0000386b 0x1000 + 10347
    15  com.apple.systempreferences  
    0x0000346e 0x1000 + 9326
    16  com.apple.systempreferences  
    0x00007aee 0x1000 + 27374
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    0x9005c42a _nsnote_callback + 106
    18  com.apple.CoreFoundation 
    0x968fd47a __CFXNotificationPost + 362
    19  com.apple.CoreFoundation 
    0x968fd753 _CFXNotificationPostNotification + 179
    20  com.apple.Foundation     
    0x90059680 -[NSNotificationCenter postNotificationName:object:userInfo:] + 128
    21  com.apple.Foundation     
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    22  com.apple.AppKit         
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    23  com.apple.AppKit         
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    24  com.apple.AppKit         
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    25  com.apple.AppKit         
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    0   com.apple.ImageIO.framework  
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    0x900a669f _encodeObject_old + 303
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    17  com.apple.Foundation     
    0x9010fed1 +[NSArchiver archiveRootObject:toFile:] + 49
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    20  com.apple.Foundation     
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    21  libSystem.B.dylib        
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    22  libSystem.B.dylib        
    0x94dec012 thread_start + 34
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      eax: 0x0000cd85  ebx: 0x92bd39ed  ecx: 0xa03d3008  edx: 0x13cb0000
      edi: 0x00000001  esi: 0xa03d3ba0  ebp: 0xbfffe648  esp: 0xbfffe648
       ss: 0x0000001f  efl: 0x00010216  eip: 0x92bd36b3   cs: 0x00000017
       ds: 0x0000001f   es: 0x0000001f   fs: 0x00000000   gs: 0x00000037
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