Bluetooth icon in menu bar vanished after 10.4.4 update

Like the subject says, in short, the bluetooth icon on the menu bar (or whatever idiom is used for it) vanished. I'm using a 12" 1.33 GHz iBook, just updated to 10.4.4. I know for a fact it's just the icon, and nothing's broken with bluetooth, because I can still activate it from the preferences panel. Any ideas?

I have turned on all of my menu bar items (AirPost, Bluetooth, Displays etc.). Sometimes I do find that a few disappear, though they either disapperar entirely, or just leave a blank space where they were. In the latter, I just have to click on the space and it reappears. However, in the former case it is a matter of going into System Preferences and deselecting/selecting "Show Bluetooth Status In Menu bar".
Hope that fixes it
Josh

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