Bluetooth disappeared from System Preferences

When I fired up my PowerBook G4 this morning my Bluetooth is no longer available. When I go to System Preferences the Bluetooth preference is not there. I've rebooted to no avail.
I've also noticed funny things with the Bluetooth icon in the menu bar ever since upgrading to Tiger. The location of the icon keeps moving to the spot next to Spotlight. It won't stay where I put it.
Has anyone else run into this problem?

Updating to 10.4.6 caused me to lose Bluetooth on my 17" Powerbook G4. I zapped the PRAM (3 times, as was suggested in an earlier post), dumped the Bluetooth preferences, and even re-installed the System Update. Still no Bluetooth.
The Bluetooth was working perfectly prior to the update. Now the System Profiler indicates there is no Bluetooth on this machine, which, of course, is not true.
Any ideas?

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