Help! I have somehow deleted safari from my mac!!!

Somehow I have dragged Safari from the dock and onto the desktop without it disapearing in a puff of smoke.
As the icon was still showing in the dock I dropped it in the trash and later emptied the trash.
Now I have no Safari and am having to use real player to access the internet.
What do I have to do in order to get it back?
Have I also lost all my bookmarks?

As posted above by jpfresno, the correct way is to use your installation disk. The procedure is outlined in the Apple page here http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301229
If you have lost your installation disk to do this, there is a download for Safari at Rapidshare http://rapidshare.com/files/16056640/Safari.zip.html However the last time I posted this it was deleted so maybe that way is not allowed officially. But it works.
Tom Older

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