Menubar items disappearing (Was: Help needed a.s.a.p.)

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kynoplex

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Hi guys,I woke up this morning and turned on my mac(running Panther 10.3.9)just to find out that the
clock,volume slider and internet connection display
have all disapeared from the menu bar...and worse
of all,the system preferences won't open ! Does anybody know what happened and how can I fix it?Please help ,I'm so upset...without the system preferences I'm unable to set up anything(including desktop images and all).All help deeply appreciated!!!
 
'Does anybody know what happened ...(?) - no.
'... and how can I fix it?' - Boot from the Panther Install Disc, and via the 'Installer Menu' launch 'Disk Utility'. Perform a 'Repair Disk' and 'Repair Disk Permissions' (twice minimum, each). Reboot to the Mac's internal hard disk drive.

Report back your results.
 
you may of installed a dodgy app,
I always try out apps on another partition before proper use so I wont lose all of my work.
 
Well ,thanks guys for trying to help me...but the fact is : I bought my mac secondhand and it came with Panther already installed(I don't have the installation CD)so I cannot reinstall Panther:(
Is there another way of fixing system prefs(or even reinstalling it)without using the CD?
I've already used disk utility and repaired permissions twice but no change...
As system prefs won't open I can't even create a "new user account" to see if that works...so I'm stuck!
I remember it all happened after installing an audio recorder app that required X11(wich I also downloaded) and after trying it ,all the problems started.
New suggestions are VERY wellcome!
 
The original installation disks should have come with the computer. Tell the seller to give them to you. You'll need them, anyway at some point - unless you buy Tiger or Leopard (Leopard won't be out until Spring 2007, though). Depending on your hardware, Panther might be the better OS.
 
Do you think it may help if I trash com.apple.systempreferences.plist from the system's library ? Is it safe to do that???
 
Can you first fire up Activity Monitor to see what's going on on the system? Maybe it's really some dodgy app trying to start up (never really succeeding...) that hinders those things from running okay...
 
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