Why won't preview open on some users?

For some reason, the Preview app won't open on one of the users on my Mac, it works on mine but on another it bounces as if it is trying to open and then opens the dialogue box "Sorry, Preview quit unexpectadly", asking me if I want to re-open or quit, if I press re-open the same thing happens again. I've looked at the permissions for the app, seems fine, looked at the users library and deleted any Preview data under the preferences folder and ran disk permissions, to no avail.
Has anyone got any pointers as to what else I could do, as they really need the Preview app up and working to print PDF's?
Thanks
Zach

Glad it is working. As for the ownership on your home folder, before tinkering you might try running the list all, long command and see what it reports:
ls -al /Users
I have two users, myself and test account. Here's what mine says:
NoobiX:~ francine$ ls -al /Users
total 88
drwxr-xr-x@ 7 root admin 238 Jan 26 15:01 .
drwxrwxr-t@ 37 root admin 1326 Feb 23 11:35 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Sep 23 17:43 .localized
drwxrwxrwt 16 root wheel 544 Feb 14 11:29 Shared
drwxr-xr-x@ 44 francine staff 1496 Feb 26 08:27 francine
drwxr-xr-x@ 16 revelator staff 544 Feb 23 14:58 revelator
You can see that the "francine" home folder belongs to francine, group staff, the same as is reported by the id command. Let's see what yours says. Yours should say Miller, group Miller.
The numerical uid and gid depend on the particular user and group. The 501 is the first admin user created. The second user is 502. The old private groups from Tiger had the same number for the group as for the user, thus the 502 user would be a member of the 502 group. The staff group is 20, the admin group is 80. What you are getting (502 and 502) means that at some point you deleted the very first user and started using a second account, and that you upgraded to Leopard rather than doing an erase and install, as I ended up doing (after getting disgusted with all the bolixed up group permissions problems). Leopard switched back to the UNIX standard of having users be members of the staff group rather than private groups. I know, more information than you ever wanted to have!
Leopard also introduced the new Guest account, which can actually be quite handy. If you have someone who is visiting and wants to use your computer to check their email or do a little web surfing you can log yourself out and let them log in as Guest. The permissions are fairly restricted, there is no password, and all their stuff is deleted when they log out.
Francine
Francine
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