Widget madness?

hi,
still learning how to use my new ibook, and been downloading widgets, but there are two in particular that when i download one, it deletes another and replaces it with that one. i thought maybe it was a space issue, so deleted some widgets didnt like and tried again with no success.
the two widgets in question are m@radio and einstein quote widget. i had m@radio earlier and then when i downloaded the einstein one m@radio disappeared and was replaced?? very annoying situation as i want both. any suggestions would be much appreciated.
thank you,
Yolande

Thank you for taking time to help. It is very appeciated. I rebooted from the installer disk & ran Disk Utility. I tried in the past to repair the permissions, that did not resolve the issue. I have also rebooted from the start up disk and tried to do the "Repair Disk", however, it will not allow to to choose that option; only Verify or Repair Permissions is allowed for the Hard Disk.
Current, very few Widgets will work at all. The Widget Manager will not close and four Widgets that are not installed are still being monitered by this application. It lists: Calculator, Address Book, "Over Flow Text Case, it...", and "One More is Four" are still showing up in the non-closable Widget. The "Choose more widgets" button does nothing, nor can you close the Widget Manager. The Activity Moniter shows this Widget working. I can Force Quit it from there, only to have it immediately reopen.
I am at the point of just reinstalling the Operation System. However, whenever I try to do this, I insert the Mac Mini Mac OS X Install Disk 1, I choose the "Install Mac OS X and Bundled Software" icon, it then promts me to restart, at which time it ejects the disk and the whole cycle starts over. It never allows me to reinstall.
Any additional help or suggestions are welcomed and appreciated. I have read numerous people across the net who have had this exact same problem. I have not seen the solution yet. I hope you are it Thanks again.

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