Front Row Missing

When I received my MacBook Pro it came with Front Row and all was dandy... A few months down the road I upgraded the hard drive to a larger one which of course resulted in me reloading the OS via the Install Discs that came with my laptop... and just recently I decided that I wanted to try to utilize Front Row more... but for some reason my remote didn't seem to trigger anything. I put new batteries in to make sure that it wasn't just the remote but that didn't make a difference. I then did some searching on my system and the software doesn't appear to be installed. I loaded the Mac OSx Install Disc and reinstalled the bundled software and still no front row... anyone know how I can get this reinstalled?

I actually have the exact same scenario. Got a bigger HDD and reinstalled OS X and my remote quit on me (but then I realized that FrontRow was missing). Just to make sure that the application isn't lurking on the drive not responding, I got the individual update for FronRow from the apple website and ran it (http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/frontrow131.html) and the installer itself couldn't find it. I have a clone of my old HDD, maybe I'll be able to find it and get it to run?
Any other ideas would be appreciated...

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