I can't open my Spot Light preferences or Mail after wipe and restore from TM

Question

I had to wipe my hard drive, re-install Lion (not ML [I couldn't post specifically for Lion]) and then I restore my documents from my Time Machine Backup. I had two users, a diag user and my normal user, only my diag user was "recovered" from time machine, when looking into the Accounts Preference Pane, only the diag user showed up, but my normal user documents were actually in my hard drive, so from the diag user I created my normal user and used the home folder that already existed. Anyways, everything works, my background picture stayed the same, my desktop icons stayed arranged the way they are and it's all handy dandy, but my Spot Light Preference Pane and my Mac Mail program won't open :S
I get the following lines in the console after clearing the console and trying to open the Spot Light Preference Pane:
3/28/13 6:52:42.787 PM System Preferences: contentsOfDirectoryAtPath returned:Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=260 "The folder “PreferencePanes” doesn’t exist." UserInfo=0x40085ea60 {NSFilePath=/Users/cesarenriquereyes-hernandez/Library/PreferencePanes, NSUserStringVariant=(
    Folder
), NSUnderlyingError=0x40085eaa0 "The operation couldn’t be completed. (OSStatus error -43.)"} for path:/Users/cesarenriquereyes-hernandez/Library/PreferencePanes
3/28/13 6:52:47.922 PM System Preferences: Error loading /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Spotlight.prefPane/Contents/MacOS/Spotlight:  dlopen(/System/Library/PreferencePanes/Spotlight.prefPane/Contents/MacOS/Spotli ght, 265): Symbol not found: _OBJC_CLASS_$_PBOXRemoteMediaBrowserPanel
  Referenced from: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iLifeMediaBrowser.framework/Versions/A/iLifeM ediaBrowser
  Expected in: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/RemoteViewServices.framework/Versions/A/Remot eViewServices
in /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iLifeMediaBrowser.framework/Versions/A/iLifeM ediaBrowser
3/28/13 6:52:47.922 PM System Preferences: [NSPrefPaneBundle instantiatePrefPaneObject] (/System/Library/PreferencePanes/Spotlight.prefPane): principalClass is nil.
I went into /System/Library/PreferencePanes/ and Spotlight.prefPane IS there, so I dont' really know what's going on.
This is what I get after clearing the console and trying to open Mac Mail:
3/28/13 6:55:58.204 PM [0x0-0xd90d9].com.apple.mail: dyld: Symbol not found: _OBJC_CLASS_$_PBOXRemoteMediaBrowserPanel
3/28/13 6:55:58.204 PM [0x0-0xd90d9].com.apple.mail:   Referenced from: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iLifeMediaBrowser.framework/Versions/A/iLifeM ediaBrowser
3/28/13 6:55:58.204 PM [0x0-0xd90d9].com.apple.mail:   Expected in: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/RemoteViewServices.framework/Versions/A/Remot eViewServices
3/28/13 6:55:58.204 PM [0x0-0xd90d9].com.apple.mail:  in /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iLifeMediaBrowser.framework/Versions/A/iLifeM ediaBrowser
3/28/13 6:56:00.442 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501: ([0x0-0xd90d9].com.apple.mail[24737]) Job appears to have crashed: Trace/BPT trap: 5
3/28/13 6:56:00.986 PM ReportCrash: Saved crash report for Mail[24737] version 5.3 (1283) to /Users/cesarenriquereyes-hernandez/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/Mail_2013-03- 28-185600_Diags-MacBook.crash
3/28/13 6:56:02.674 PM Xcode: [gputools.DYMobileDevice.0x403037140.requests] <DYMobileDevice: 0x403037140>: failed to take app service transport reservation in _checkGPUToolsServiceAvailability: Error Domain=DYAMDErrorDomain Code=-402653150 "The service is invalid."

Answer 1

The Solution: Tools - Internet Options - Program Tab ... and there was the Default Web Browser option. It said that IE was NOT the default browser. I changed that and IT WORKED.
A simple and sweet fix ... all thanks to: Martin Brinkmann a journalist from Germany who founded Ghacks Technology News Back in 2005. I found him through this article:
http://www.ghacks.net/2011/01/19/firefox-profile-manager-to-be-removed-soon/
Thank You again Martin Brinkmann!