I would count yourself lucky and move on.
Two missing items in the menu bar, two items which are accessible from elsewhere, is not exactly a major hiccup.
What is the rest of the video functionality like, you didn't mention that
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Hi everyone, on a Mac G5 2Hz, I reformatted a 160 GB drive and made a clean install of OSX 10.5, then updated to OSX 10.5.8 - the menu items for system prefs and time machine are invisible, I just see white rectangles. After repairing with disk utility the disk permissions, removing files like com.apple.finder.plist com.apple.systempreferences.plist etc, rebooting into safe mode and repairing from the original DVD, the result is always the same. Does anyone have a clue where the error is ? Have installed now 5 times and get the same error. Thanks a lot.

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