Flute missing in Instrument picker

Dorico
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I have a strange problem on one of my machines:

The Concert Flute is missing from the instrument pickers:

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If I open up a file that contains a flute, it is available in the instrument picker but something is off there as well. If I go to the Edit Instruments dialog and reset the flute there it resets it to a Tam-tam.

Consequentially, all Flute parts that I import (e.g. from XML) show up the correct rhythms but all pitches are collapsed to a single pitch on the middle staff line.

On another machine, it all works fine so I presume some configuration file must be corrupt on the problematic machine.

What I tried so far is to transfer

instruments.xml
instrumentFamiliesDefinition.xml
instrumentScoreOrders.xml
(in Program Files/Steinberg/Dorico5/)

from the working machine to the problematic machine

but that didn’t change anything so I presume these might not be the files in question. Could someone point me in the right direction how to fix this?

Thanks,
Robin

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Some additional information (this behaviour is also only on the problematic machine, on the other one it works as expected):

If I open up a file with Flute and reset it in the Instruments Editor, I get this:

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If I press the reset button again I get this:

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with every reset it cycles between these two states.

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It won’t be the data inside the Dorico installation itself, but a problem in the userlibrary.xml file in %APPDATA%\Steinberg\Dorico 5.

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That fixed it! Thanks, Daniel!