Translate widget in Dashboard doesn't work

I can choose the Translation widget in my Dashboard, however, I can't choose the languages (from/to) with the arrows.... :-(

For those of you who have the problem, I discovered that you need atleast one Web Widget in your Widgets folder.
I copy one over from our MBP, and the functionality returned.

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Have you tried killing the Dock Process through Activity monitoring and then relaunching it? I would also try logging out and then back in or doing a complete reboot of the machine to see if that helps.
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