Help! No "Internet Connect" application on my iBook??

Hi, I'm new to the forums. I have a Macbook Pro running 10.4.11 and wanted to set up my old iBook, which is still running 10.2.8, for my son. I haven't used it in a long time, but when I did I was able to get online with no problem. Now, I couldn't connect to the internet after trying everything I knew, and in checking I couldn't find the internet connection application on the iBook! Maybe I deleted it somehow? I can't imagine doing that, but anyway...I tried copying the application from my Macbook Pro, but got an error message when I tried to use it on the ibook saying it wasn't compatible, which isn't surprising.
What is my best option here? Is there a way to locate this application on the Mac OS disks I have for 10.2 without having to wipe the old machine clean and start over from scratch replacing the entire OS? Can I download the appropriate internet connect from the Apple support site somewhere?
I'm not much of a techie, but if you use small words I think I can understand whatever you tell me I should try!

Thanks for the help--here's as far as I was able to progress, which still has me unable to access the internet from the iBook:
Using Pacifist, I was only able to find an "internet connect" option on my 10.2 update disk. I installed it. An option named internet connect does now show up. However, when I click on it, it seems to initiate a process to open something (as evidenced by a frantically jumping up and down icon in the dock, I'm sure you know what I mean by that), but then that icon disappears and nothing happens.
Incidentally, I tried sharing my wireless internet connection from my Macbook Pro to the iBook, and although the new connection appeared in my airport dropdown list on the iBook , when I tried repeatedly to connect using the password I had just created, I got an error message saying it was unable to connect to the network. The computers were sitting side-by-side at the time, and the router to the wireless network was literally about 10 feet away, if that. Also, if this means anything at this point, the airport status on the iBook shows no bars at all.
Sorry to be so difficult!

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To my dismay, I could not locate the previous Internet Connect utility under the brand new Leopard.
When forced to connect to Internet via modem, such utility let me know in the past the initial link speed (e.g. 50.000 bps) and, if poor (i.e. below 50K bps), I cancelled the connection, unplugged the external USB Apple modem (which does worse than my previous PowerBook G4 built-in modem!) and reconnected it all as the only means I found out to force the phone line to allocate me a faster initial link...
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Vic 00 wrote:
Thank you all for your sympathy and support, with my special thanks to A. Mitchel for his idea, which Apple Support in Spain, where I am located nowadays, was at a loss about, when I asked them, previous to my post!
This is the apparent solution. I proceeded this way:
1. I tried to install Internet Connect from my previous Tiger install disk into my computer now under Leopard. The Tiger install disk was rejected as impracticable (maybe an uninstall defense from Leopard as newer?).
2. I remembered I still had my PowerBook G3 (unfeasible for Leopard, they say) under Tiger and copied its Internet Connect application onto a memory stick.
3. I copied Internet Connect into the applications folder of my Macbook Pro under Leopard, and opened the application.
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Vic
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This works brilliantly.
And so simple...if you happen to have a pre-Leopard iBook laying around, which, happily, I did.
I used the ap to dial up and get online and here I am, with it back in my dock and quite functional.
Thanks ever so much, Vic for thinking of it.
It hadn't occurred to me to pull the ap from my rather outdated G3 iBook.
Which only goes to show that old Macs are never absolutely and completely without purpose!
I am going to take your fix to a couple of the other threads that talk about this issue, help out some of the other Connecties on the forum.
Oh, yeah, and to Phillip- iStat doesn't get it, not helpful to us who are STUCK WITH dialing.
Nice you don't have to. Congrats.

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