Drive Genius 2 and utilities folder

Hi there
1) I am hopping some one called help me with Drive Genius 2. I want to initialize the disk. But the problem is that there are two options one is “Apple Partition Map” the other is “GUID Partition Table”. Don’t know which one to choose, what do they mean? I am using a three year old iMac and want to reformat an external USB drive.
2) Something else I would like to know about the utilities folder in the app folder on the Mac. All of the utilities that came with the Mac are missing. Don’t know where they have gone but “About this Mac “ and the more info button is greyed out and cant be pressed. The info I think was in utilities folder which is now missing. How do I get the utilities back, can I get it from the Mac OS X disc that came with the computer? Don’t want to install the how system, is there anyway I can just get utilities from the disc?
Thanks for any help

Thanks for the info
I have Pacifist and I thought it had worked but on the Disk utility, system profiler, and terminal are crossed out and when clicked on it says "You can't open the application "System Profiler" because it is not supported on this architecture". What does this mean and can I get it working again?
Thanks for your help

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