File Sharing Prefence Missing in Sharing Preferences

Hello,
As the title states the "File Sharing" checkbox is completely missing from the "Sharing" panel in System Prefences.
I have never seen this before and did a Google search which only revealed 1 result which was never answered.
Here's what I see in my Sharing panel right now:
DVD or CD Sharing
Screen Sharing
Scanner Sharing
Remote Login
Remote Management
Remote Apple Events
Bluetooth Sharing
I have a PowerMac G5 running Mac OS 10.5.8 and it doesn't have this problem, in fact I am using file sharing on it right now.
If anyone needs anymore information please ask, this is very important to me and need it fixed ASAP.
Thanks in advance for any help.

My system is running 10.6.4, would reinstalling it help? I only did a fresh install of Mac OS 10.6 about a month ago, did all of the updates though Software Update including the 10.6.4 Combo and copied over all of my data. But if reinstalling the combo update would actually help then I'm willing to do it.

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