Help! - tool in Illustrator CS4 missing

Hi! This tool in Illustrator CS4 is missing!  How do I solve this problem?? I have tried several things , but nothing helped!

Sorry, I can't find Adobe Illustrator CS4 Settings?
please look here: http://screencast.com/t/Le732Z2DsbtE
I have look through every folders under Adobe Illustrator .
I have a full Create Cloud subscription on my Mac laptop, - but when I am working in my company, in daytime, I use an old stationary Mac which cannot use Create Cloud subscription because this Mac is 6 years old (but works perfectly).  This Mac is connected to our CTP.
I take the files down to my company, where I'll take the files in from a USB and into Illustrator 4 - and from there I can then print directly to our CTP. When I am in the company I work daily with Illustrator 4, and on evenings and free time I worked with Adobe Illustrator CC 2014. So I do not really know what to do, I have to get Illustrator tool to work, so I can work from there to our CTP

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