Can't click on Spotlight menulet

For some reason, my menu bar Spotlight icon is dead. Does anyone have any ideas??

Ok, I had a similar issue and have now found my problem - and it could explain others as well. If the "show bluetooth in the menu bar" preference is set to yes and there are a number of items being loaded at startup, SystemUIServer will not function correctly. I simply disabled the bluetooth icon in teh menu bar and all works well. To give credit where credit is due, I figured this out from the change file included with a free app called Menu Master available here: http://www.unsanity.com/products/free
Although it appeared to be related to other menu items, it was not.

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