FileVault 2 guest account is greyed out

Yesterday I performed a clean install of OS X Lion for my MBP (early 2011) had some kernel panics recently and I was told that it could be a software related problem. Anyway I installed all of the updates, switched on File Vault, Back to my Mac and everything's looking good except for I can't access the guest account. When booting there's no prompt for signing into the guest account and in system preferences the guest is greyed out.
Before my clean install I had File Vault enabled as well and there was a guest account I could log in to. I'm not sure what's wrong but I suspect a problem with Software Update. I already had to install several updates manually but am not sure if there's still something missing.
Any help would be appreciated.
mstrfcs

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