Widgets won't function

when i open dashboard, none of my widgets show up. when i press the "+", all my widgets show up on the bottom, but when i drag a widget from the menu along the bottom to the upper area on which it's supposed to function, the widget shows up for a second, ripples the grey background, then goes away.
i just updated to 10.4.4, which i was hoping would help, but didn't. i also tried erasing the widget files in my library - no dice. i'm not sure what to do. any suggestions?

please help!
I need some help on this topic as well. My daughter has an apple ibook G4 laptop and when we try to open her widgets they do the ripple thing and then close back up. I tried zapping the PRAM and they would open back up for a little while but then they would go back to just doing the ripple effect and close back up again.
Any help on this would be great!
iBook G4

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