System Preferences - Network Not Loading

Hi,
I've a OS X 10.6.2 for a week now, and my Network Preference Pane wouldn't load all of a sudden. The last time I changeed it was the other day where I removed some wireless networks.
When I load the network pref pane, it just says "Loading Network..."
I created another user to check if it's just my user account, but it has the same problem too. So I would think it's a system-wide setting that went wrong.
My console log has the following whenever I try to open the pref pane:
11/24/09 11:05:52 AM System Preferences[1586] * Assertion failure in -[NSMenuItem initWithTitle:action:keyEquivalent:], /SourceCache/AppKit/AppKit-1038.25/Menus.subproj/NSMenuItem.m:270
11/24/09 11:05:52 AM System Preferences[1586] Invalid parameter not satisfying: aString != nil
Must be a setting in the plist, I just don't know which one, and how do I get that plist back without a time machine backup.
Please help, I've been all around the web and the discussions and can't find a solution to this one.
Thanks.

I have had exactly the same problem with the network not loading in system preferences. I am using a macbook pro running OSX 10.6.2. As an alternative to the suggestions made here I have tried running repair disk permissions several times and each time it brought up the same thing: Permissions differ on "usr/share/derby", should be drwxr-xr-x , they are lrwxr-xr-x ." It then apparently repairs the problem but it produces the same message each time: "Repaired usr/share/derby". I realise this might have nothing to do with the network problem.
In my case the problem seemed to happen when I logged on first thing thing this morning and Time Capsule was unable to connect to the internet. It requested a network password but then restarted before I put in the necessary password. The wireless network is operating I just can't bring up the network in preferences and I don't like the sound of the various solutions that have been tried because I'm not sure what data or settings I will lose. Any other suggestions would be most welcome.

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