Widgets freezing in dashboard!!!

I'm running 10.5.2 on my MacBook Pro. I open Dashboard to view a couple of widgets. They work the first minute, then they freeze. Not only that, but the radio widgets have stopped working altogether. If anybody knows of any solutions, it would be much appreciated. Thanks.

I may have figured it out. Just after I made my first post I had a bit of inspirotto. I have a copy of OnyX (freeware) and performed a full clean-up of my system (cache, logs, etc.) All of my widgets are working now. For how long it has yet to be seen, but give it a whirl and see what happens.
I am thinking that there is a residual effect from the cache, logs, etc. when I upgraded to 10.5.3
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