Disk utility is gone!

So I went to use disk utility recently and realized that it was no longer there. I started looking through the web for ways to get it back and found all the threads about the disk utility problems for people with mac osx 10.3.9, which i do, when upgrading to the latest itunes. The only problem is, the only problem people seemed to mention was that disk utility wouldn't work properly, I couldn't find any accounts of people losing disk utility completely, nor what one should do in such a case. I searched my hard drive, its just not there to be found. I tried running the powerbook software dvd to no effect, and I tried downloading and installing the upgrade for 10.3.9 again from this site, which seems to have only replaced an incomplete, non-functional portion of the program. There were no downloads for disk utility by itself that I could find on this site. What I need to know is, does anyone know of a way to get back disk utility without reformatting?

There has to be. I checked my 10.3.2 Install disk and it is there. Did anyone follow the "Close the Welcome to Mac OS X window part? You see, when you insert the CD, a Finder Window, titled "Welcome to Mac OS X" appears. You may think so, but this folder is not the root directory of the CD. To get to the root directory, close the Welcome to Mac OS X Finder window that comes up when you insert the CD and doucle-click on the CD icon. It then takes you to the root directory. Now the window will be titled "Mac OS X Install Disk 1" In there, there will be these folders and files:
- Welcome to Mac OS X (See, this screen that comes up is a folder)
- --->Applications<----
- bin
- dev
- etc
- Library
- mach
- mach_kernel
- private
- sbin
- System
- tmp
- usr
- var
- Volumes
In there go to the Applications folder. In the Applications folder, go to the Utilities folder. In there, there will be a Disk Utility application. If all this is too hard, simply search the Install Disk for a folder called Utilities (Go to the "Find" window, Select Specific places for the Search In Property, Check the box next to Mac OS X Install Disk 1---Name is: Utilities). Search for that and it will return with 2 results, then one you are looking for is the 2nd one (The parent directory is Applications).
If this is too hard to follow, you are hopeless.

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Ciao.
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