Dashboard question and my app store icon disappeared...

I was looking at the dashboard widgets to download and I found a game to download. Once I downloaded it and opened up my dashboard, all I see is the game. All my other icons are behind the game and I can't see them. I don't know how to make the game screen smaller like the other icons or even delete it.
I am very new to owning my first Mac, so I put in the Mac OS Install DVD and after it finished downloading, my app store icon disappeared. There is a question mark in the place that was my app store icon. How do I fix that?
Thanks!

Did you reinstall the software from the dvd? It sound like you are now running an os that is under 10.6.6.
Click on the apple icon in the menu bar and select "about this mac"
That will show you the os version you are running now. You need to have 10.6.6 and above to have the app store installed.
In this case all you have to do is run a software update and download the lattest os update which should be 10.6.8.

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