Saft 7.5.0 How-To: Fixing a Missing Saft Preference Pane in Safari

It didn't take long for Saft author Hao Li to get back to me. It turns out I committed the first sin of contacting tech support: not checking the support available on the website for a resolution to the problem. Hao Li has seen this problem before and it was right there on Saft's FAQ page:

Where is the Saft preference panel?
It has happened few times that users can see menus added by Saft but cannot find Saft's preference panel in Safari's preferences. The solution that was suggested by a user and that has always worked so far is to:

1. Quit Safari.
2. Delete ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist.
3. Open Safari.

So the problem seems to be a corrupted Safari preference file.

True to Hao Li's word, this worked for me as well. Besides the effort, the only drawback was that I needed to redo my prefs. But that was that.