Crashes While Opening Preferences

[Darren Oh]

I just installed LyX/Mac 1.4.0 and tried to open Preferences. LyX  
crashed. I restarted it and opened a recent document, then tried to  
open Preferences again. Instead of Preferences, the About window  
opened. Clicking on the About menu item caused the status bar to  
display "(buffer-export fax)." This is a weird way of working.