Deleted com.apple.windowserver.plist

Hi everyone.
I deleted the com.apple.windowserver.plist, under preferences and the longer version under my user profile.
Supposidly,the system would recreate these files on restart.  It has not and the files are gone.
Now I can't enable quartz extreme, or do anything with these files.
Does anyone have an idea on how to get them back?
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This is on a powerbook g4 1.5ghz .  1 meg of ram.  10.5.8

I'm in a similar situation
I don't think you can be. The PowerBook that the OP owns is a completely different architecture from the MacBook Pro. Your best bet is to start a new thread in the MacBook Pro forums here:
MacBook Pro
I know some forums flame you for starting a new thread but the new thread works best here. You get help with your issue without diluting the attention the OP seserves.
Also, some experienced posters will not even look at threads with multiple questions from different people; it's simply to hard to keep sorted after a while.
Be sure to include your MBPs model variant and the Mac OS version in your new post. That will save people having to ask for it and you'll get help faster.
Best wishes!

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    Version:         1485 (6.0)
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    OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.8 (12A269)
    Report Version:  8
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    2   CoreFoundation                    0x00007fff8c125f07 withDaemonConnection + 87
    3   CoreFoundation                    0x00007fff8c12a36c -[CFPrefsPlistSource synchronize] + 316
    4   CoreFoundation                    0x00007fff8c1291a1 -[CFPrefsPlistSource synchronizeIfStale] + 113
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    11  Foundation                        0x00007fff8ccb7c97 -[NSUserDefaults(NSUserDefaults) boolForKey:] + 23
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    14  AddressBook                       0x00007fff92935cf1 -[ABSafeNotificationReflector reflectNotification:toEntryIfElligible:] + 72
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    16  CoreFoundation                    0x00007fff8c0597d9 __NSSetEnumerate + 985
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    19  AddressBook                       0x00007fff92935a9e -[ABCopyOnWriteSet each:] + 91
    20  AddressBook                       0x00007fff92935a1e -[ABSafeNotificationReflector notificationFunnel:] + 181
    21  CoreFoundation                    0x00007fff8bff5b8a _CFXNotificationPost + 2554
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    28  Message                           0x00007fff88d2edd2 -[POPAccount fetchSynchronously] + 140
    29  CoreFoundation                    0x00007fff8c036cac __invoking___ + 140
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    31  CoreMessage                       0x00007fff8b271d5d -[MonitoredInvocation invoke] + 225
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    33  CoreMessage                       0x00007fff8b236602 -[_MFInvocationOperation main] + 431
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    35  Foundation                        0x00007fff8cd053d1 __block_global_6 + 129
    36  libdispatch.dylib                 0x00007fff8cc5ef3d _dispatch_call_block_and_release + 15
    37  libdispatch.dylib                 0x00007fff8cc5b0fa _dispatch_client_callout + 8
    38  libdispatch.dylib                 0x00007fff8cc5c23e _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 304
    39  libsystem_c.dylib                 0x00007fff8c361ceb _pthread_wqthread + 404
    40  libsystem_c.dylib                 0x00007fff8c34c1b1 start_wqthread + 13
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        0x7fff88bc2000 -     0x7fff88e08ff7  com.apple.MessageFramework (6.0 - 1485) <79FA27A2-D01A-3D35-AE3A-7F8F41034728> /System/Library/Frameworks/Message.framework/Versions/B/Message
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        0x7fff8bfb0000 -     0x7fff8c199fff  com.apple.CoreFoundation (6.8 - 744) <47AEA7C7-EF9B-3FC6-AEBF-CE02FC650301> /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation
        0x7fff8c34b000 -     0x7fff8c417fef  libsystem_c.dylib (825.24) <16B6B86C-53EE-36E8-AC2B-4AADC1008098> /usr/lib/system/libsystem_c.dylib
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