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Tried your suggestions and did a complete re-install of the 2.0.16 files by copying the new ones over the website files... did not help!!
I dug into the db and started editing the different tables... looked at the errors listed above and slowly edited the data within these tables.
The problems have been corrected and now everything is working as it should.
Even though the tables were repaired eariler, one or more were not correct. Somewhere one of the tables allowed incorrect data to be written and caused the problems.
I had changed the labels in the icq, aim, msmn, etc to reflect a more usefull attribute like st address, spouse, city, state, etc. When I removed this data, the "edit user" problem was corrected. When I reinstalled the language files, edited the group table, and edited the module table, the "general preferances" problem disappeared.
This problem has been very exasperating and time consuming. I finally decided that if I destroyed the db "so what" I couldn't reinstall the info from it in a new install, because the data within the db had to be corrupt somewhere.
It worked... I hope this helps someone else down the line.
john b