10.5.5 Screen Sharing Toolbar

Hello all.
I have a question regarding the new 10.5.5 update and its impact on the screen sharing toolbar.
Prior to the ARD Update and the 10.5.5 one, my toolbar in screen sharing was enabled to show controls such as:
-Quality (Black and white, greyscale, 16 bit color, 32 bit color)
-Full screen
-Send/ Get Remote contents of clipboard
But now has only
-Send/Get Clipboard contents.
I got a backup of it on a mac pro and copied it and trashed the preferences to it but it still doesn't allow me to chage the quality or go into fullscreen mode to a remote computer.
Any Ideas? I really don't want to have to do an archive and install...

I re-installed leopard (Archive and install) and put the app on my external, then put it on my internal HD.
i also reworked the preference file:
(drag to ~/Library/Preferences)
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/%7Ecjm67/Sullivan/OS%20X/com.apple.ScreenSharing.pli st
You can download the following also (the working one)
Application-Unnzip and Drag to /System/Library/Coreservices and restart a few times-
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/%7Ecjm67/Sullivan/OS%20X/Screen%20Sharing.zip
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I re-installed leopard (Archive and install) and put the app on my external, then put it on my internal HD.
i also reworked the preference file:
(drag to ~/Library/Preferences)
http://www.pages.drexel.edu/%7Ecjm67/Sullivan/OS%20X/com.apple.ScreenSharing.pli st
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