Bluetooth Icon in menubar keeps disappearing.

Even when i have chosen the menubar icon to appear in System Preferences it still does not appear. When i restart my computer it occasionally reappears but this is not consistent. Has anyone got any ideas how to make it reappear permanently.
Cheers

Hello steve:
Welcome to Apple discussions.
Try a couple of things.
Run permission repair
Run repair disk from your software install DVD
Trash the finder preference file (com.apple.finder.plist) and restart your computer.
Barry

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