Date & Time won't show in Menu Bar

I just installed the latest automatic update for Leopard and now in the right hand side of the menu bar only shows the Default Folder X icon and the Spotlight icon (my bluetooth, infared, airport icons and date & time are missing).
I go to the Date & Time preferences and click the option to have it appear, but when I close that window or just switch to another tab on that same window, it resets it back to being unchecked.
I know, of course, to unlock these settings and tried locking them or leaving them unlocked in hopes it would actually "lock in" my choice of settings, but with no such luck.
If anyone knows how to get my other icons back where they belong I'd appreciate that as well.

I actually don't use "Default Folder" at all, it came with Leopard.
But this problem didn't come up until the latest updates.
There was a file permissions error in running activity Monitor, though.
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+Follow this path in the Finder: /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/+
+and double-click on Clock.menu to add it to your menu bar.+
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Double-click didn't do anything, tried to drag it up there thinking (for some reason) that might work, but no luck there as well.
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+A Tiger reference but probably works for Leopard too: Menu bar reset+
+I had Default Folder on my OS9 computer but read some things about issues with the OSX version that made me decide not to continue with it, though I haven't read anything about recent versions.+
{quote}
No luck here, as well. Although the file I was supposed to delete in ByHost wasn't there, so maybe that has something to do with it.
Message was edited by: Raymei
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