Time machine needs reinstalling?

Greetings,
I wanted to enable Time Machine for the first time today.
So I go to System Preferences and click "Time Machine". One thing is weird here: a first click only shows "Loading Time Machine" in the title bar but doesn't open the pane (I can wait forever). I have to click a second time to open the pane.
Then, the padlock is invisible (I only see the "Click the lock to make changes" prompt but not the padlock). Moving the mouse over the padlock makes it showing. At this point, I'm thinking the prefs pane is corrupt.
And... that's all... Clicking the padlock (which is closed) doesn't ask me for the admin username and password and doesn't open the padlock so I can't do anything, except using the "Show Time Machine in menubar" checkbox.
So I'm thinking of reinstalling the Time Machine prefs pane using "Pacifist" (archive and install isn't an option for me because my internet connection is too slow for all the updates). However, I see one problem: my install DVD is around 10.5.0 and my installed OS is 10.5.8. I'm guessing the Time Machine prefs panes are different for these 2 OS versions. What can I do, otherwise?

BDAqua wrote:
Hello,
First, Safe Boot , (holding Shift key down at bootup), use Disk Utility from there to Repair Permissions, test if things work OK in Safe Mode.
Then move these files to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.recentitems.plist
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist
Then trash the original of this last one, since move only copies it.
Reboot & test.
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.
Hello, and thanks for your answer!
I've followed your advices (mostly: I've not put the finder and desktop plist files to the desktop, I wanted to do it at the very least. However, the problem has disappeared before that).
So, I can now finally access Time Machine (thanks again, BDAqua!). However, all seems to indicate it hasn't been installed correctly (I'm speaking about the preferences pane). While Time Machine is actually working (does the backup), it has several weird glitches:
1: in System Preferences, the icon is the generic System Preferences icon instead of Time Machine's icon.
2: the prefs pane's title shows "com.apple.prefs.backup" (or "Loading com.apple.prefs.backup" when it loads). Along with point 1, it seems to indicate it can't access the resources in the bundle, I'm wrong?
3: both in the status menu and in the prefs pane, the dates are weird number-formatted (instead of expected dates, they show like "22065118000". I can't explain this number, it doesn't even seem to be the number of seconds since 19 january 1904 (a standard base date in computers, as you may know)).
4: the ON/OFF switch doesn't show.
For points 2, 3 and 4, I've taken a screenshot:
http://homepage.mac.com/anic297/timemachine.pict
Most of these problems aren't annoying now that Time Machine works in its basis. The only problem that is still annoying is the one about the dates. I'd like to see "Last backup: <correct date>" in the status menu instead of "Last backup: 2207019000", as it is now. Macs were more easy to control and repair in Mac OS 9 days!
Any idea?

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