A while ago, I lost all functionality of the OS X spell check service. To my knowledge, this was not tied to the installation or removal of any new application, and the problem is not limited to a single user account.
In recent attempts to find the cause of this problem, I found that my AppleSpell.service bundle was corrupted. I replaced that bundle (in /Library/Services) with a working copy from another machine, and now in all applications which use the OS X spell check service, whenever I attempt to access that service an alert is displayed saying "couldn't contact spell checker".
I'm now at a loss as to what to do. I've never used or tried to use any third-party spell check service, and I haven't observed any other abnormal behavior on my system. I'm running 10.4.6 on a G4 PowerBook.
In recent attempts to find the cause of this problem, I found that my AppleSpell.service bundle was corrupted. I replaced that bundle (in /Library/Services) with a working copy from another machine, and now in all applications which use the OS X spell check service, whenever I attempt to access that service an alert is displayed saying "couldn't contact spell checker".
I'm now at a loss as to what to do. I've never used or tried to use any third-party spell check service, and I haven't observed any other abnormal behavior on my system. I'm running 10.4.6 on a G4 PowerBook.