[PKblue]

I have searched for this problem but can't seem to find any entries....

I can't open the Keyboard&Mouse pane in System Preferences. When I try to it just says 'loading Keyboard & Mouse....' but the pane never appears. It freezes System Prefs and I have to quit it and restart System Prefs to use one of the other options.

I thought it might have been the Microsoft Intellipoint etc software so I uninstalled that, but it still happens.

I think it started to do this after I installed an Aluminum Keyboard and subsequent Alum KB Firmware Update 1.0

I tried detaching the keyboard and rebooting just into the Macbook Pro, but the Key&mouse pane still freezes in System Prefs.

Any ideas of what to do to get it working?

thanks

PK

[PKblue]

Forgot to mention I'm on a Macbook Pro 2.4Ghz and running OS X 10.5.4

[ibook_steve]

Try logging into a test account and see if you still have the problem. If it works OK in the test account, something is messed up in your preferences. I forget which file it is, but delete System Preferences preferences in your local Library folder. If it still fails in the test account, you may need to archive and reinstall the OS (hopefully not).

Steve

[PKblue]

Thanks for the tip. I created a test account and the keyboard worked in that. I troubleshooted a difference in the plists and worked out the following fix:

I opened the com.apple.systempreferences.plist and edited the com.apple.preference.keyboard.lastselectedtab item and changed the entry to 1, which seemed to fix the issue.

Thanks for your help