[eluser]TheFuzzy0ne[/eluser]
Whether you're running on localhost or not should not make any difference.
Just a shot in the dark, but have you tried clearing your cache?
Are you sure you're system path is set correctly, and it's not pointing to an older, modified installation?
Have you made sure your cache directory is writable?
If that doesn't help, the only thing I can think of, is that your RAM might be on it's way out. It might be worth running [url="http://www.memtest.org/"]Memtest86+[/url] to double-check your system memory.