[jlemons]

My school just got 14 new PowerBooks. I am loading Remote Desktop onto all of the computers. I noticed on one of the computers it added another section to the preferences called "Other". Why did it do this and how do I get rid of it? It did not do this on any of the other computers. It is located right under the "System" section. Thanks.'

It also put the keyboard in the "Other" section. It is like it has made aliases of these two items and put the copy there.

[snerdini]

There are two places that you can add third-party System Preference sections:
/Library/PreferencePanes/ - these show up under "Other" and are available to all users

~/Library/PreferencePanes/ - these also show up under "Other", but are only available to the user who installed them (it will exist in their Library folder)

Now how the Keyboard pane got in Other, I'm not sure. Check to see if anything is in the folders listed above, but my guess is no. One other place you can check is:
/System/Library/PreferencePanes/

This might contain your duplicate items...if it does, you will most likely need to delete one through the terminal. But be very, very careful...if you delete the wrong one, you may lose your ability to modify preferences for that section. I don't recommend doing that unless you know what you're doing.

[Rainy Day]

It also put the keyboard in the "Other" section. It is like it has made aliases of these two items and put the copy there.

This is a known problem with System Preferences, as discussed in this TinkerTool Jaguar FAQ.

[krove]

On a related question, I don't suppose anyone has figured out how to put "Other" preference panes into other categories.

For example, I wanted to move my PowerMate pref pane to hardware and a MySQL pref pane (turns it on and off) to Network/Internet.

I scanned through various plists in /Library, /System/Library, and in some of the prefPanes in /System/Library/PreferencePanes, but I was unable to find anything that told System Preferences.app what panes go where.

[TheDisaster]

Delete the contents of your Cache folders, that should fix most problems with Preference Panes being in the wrong spots or missing.