On 30 Oct 2007, at 00:40, Brendan Dixon wrote:
[…deleting ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist…]
That fixed it. Strange...
It the file a cache or does it hold significant data?
It holds miscellaneous system preferences such as anti-alias and locale info. Not really that significant.
You can open the file in TextMate and press ⌃⇧H to view a readable version of the contents.