"Windows Sharing" Won't Turn Off In Sharing Pane

Greetings.
I've a 1.25 eMac running 10.4.11, and I just noticed that the Windows Sharing setting in the Sharing panel won't go off even after hitting the "Stop" button and the checkmark which won't go away, and there's two yellow delta up next to it and to a Enable Accounts button. I was tooling around with the Firewall setting a few days ago and have done so for years but it never caused this IF this is the cause. I run my Airport home net without any problems but is this now a security risk?
Anny suggestions would be appreciated.
JimWG

Hi again Jim,
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then move these files to the Desktop.
(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.)
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sharing.firewall.plist
(Then Trash the original of this one, as "moving" it only copies it.)
Then reboot once more.
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.

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