Fast User Switching Menu Disappears

On my G4 PowerBook 17", the fast users switching menu keeps "disappearing" in my standard account. This means that I have to go into preferences with my admin user and just open the fast user switch preference section and it is already checked and it will appear. Anybody else seen this and know a fix?
John

I think I might have been the first one to notice weird interactions in Tiger between menu extras, Spotlight, and SystemUIServer, sending Dr. Smoke into "serious investigation" mode on the issue. I finally ended my major problems by deleting dang near everything, except wClock, Scripts and Input menu. Now it no longer hangs Spotlight, but often the items are rearranged upon restart. At first I kept a copy of com.apple.systemuiserver.plist, that had everything listed and arranged correctly, in a folder on my desktop. When I restarted and things up there were wrong I would put the "good" copy in the Prefs folder and then use Activity Monitor to force quit SystemUIServer, which would then immediately restart and consult the correct plist, thus displaying the items I wanted in the order I wanted. I have since discovered that it isn't even necessary to swap out the plist file--simply restarting SystemUIServer does the trick. It is almost as if it does not always consult its own plist file when starting, but when restarting it does.
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