Important files deleted.

Hi. I was planning to sell my macbook and i couldn't find the restore disk so i was trying to manually delete all the files. Well, apparently i deleted some important things, i couldn't find Disk Utility, and you know when you try to click "about this mac", well you couldn't click it, I couldn't click "System preferences" either. And to top it all off, my charger broke.
My questions are...If i am already running on Snow Leopard 10.6, can i restore with snow leopard as well? or do i need to restore with Leopard 10.5 first then upgrade it to snow leopard?
And, if i can restore with Snow Leopard, will that bring back all of those important files i need such as disk utility etc?
thanks!

Then do this:
Extended Hard Drive Preparation
1. Boot from your Snow Leopard Installer Disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID (for Intel Macs) or APM (for PPC Macs) then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
After formatting has completed quit DU and return to the installer. Complete the installation.
I never said reinstalling would not restore files normally installed by the OS X installer, so I don't understand your last paragraph.

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