BSD Subsystems not present on install discs and not installed

Today I was wanting to enable my Mac to work as a wireless access point for my internet connection. When I tried to I was unable to do so, with a note saying that the BSD subsystems weren't installed. I looked around a bit online and following the advice I found, tried to install it from my Snow Leopard install DVD. What I found, however, was that it simply wasn't there. At all. Anywhere. I decided to check both of my Leopard install DVD's as well. Nothing. I even went as far as to try my Tiger disks.
This is confusing to me as I have previously used my Mac as a wireless access point and at that point in time I clearly had the BSD subsystems, yet now (since then I've had to reinstall the operating system twice and had the harddrive replaced) I do not have it, nor is it on any of the disks that by all other accounts it should be on. I've looked in the install packages, run searches and found nothing at all.
So basically, how can I install BSD if it's not where it's meant to be?

Thank you so so much. I unchecked Safari in my icloud and it seems we now have separate bookmarks again. (She deleted dozens of my bookmarks earlier thinking she was only deleting from her own Mac. I've managed to restore many of them but not organised as they were with my own notes on them! It'll take many weeks to sort out.) I also tried unchecking Calendars in icloud as our calendars have merged, but it tells me my calendar will be deleted from my Mac.
Still wondering if I should just install her own Mountain Lion on her Macbook with her own Apple ID (what I should have done in the first place probably) or will this cause issues with installing one mountain lion over another do you think?

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