Users and Group preference pane error

This  crap keeps popping up when i try to access to user and group. I nee dthe solution asap before the March holidays ends. Thanks.

Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ If you’re running Mac OS X 10.7 or later, open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the page that opens.
Drag or copy – do not type – the following line into the Terminal window, then press return:
dscl . -list /Users | grep Guest
Post the lines of output that appear below what you entered, if any – the text, please, not a screenshot.

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    Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
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    ☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
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    dscl . -list /Users | grep Guest
    Post the lines of output that appear below what you entered, if any – the text, please, not a screenshot.

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