Something was indeed broken in my preferences file. Do not know where the extra entries came from, but deleting the preferences.xml file from c:\Users\MyName\AppData\Roaming\Inkscape resolved the issue. :/
Something was indeed broken in my preferences file. Do not know where the extra entries came from, but deleting the preferences.xml file from c:\Users\ MyName\ AppData\ Roaming\ Inkscape resolved the issue. :/