I think Lion killed my IR port, Mini 1.83 Dual

After going from Snow Leopard to Lion on my MacMini 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo the "Disable remote control infared receiver" is gone from the Security & Privacy panels Advanced sheet.
The Mac came with a white remote that worked fine I bougt an aluminum one and no problems with that either.  Anyone seen this before?
The IR port could be broken is there a way to check it?  It does seem sort of strange that the port would die after an OS update.
Any ideas out there?
Thanks in advance
John

"user", thanks for the helpful and honest answer.  It feels a little better knowing I'm not alone in it. I've searched but not found the tread you mention.  The real pain is that the mini in question is the hub of my entertainment center.  There are two 3Tb firewire drives attached to it all filled with TV series and movies.  The optic goes into a Yamaha 7.1, it's rare anymore that I fire up my DVD player, and only use the BluRay to connect to Netflix cause the audio and video seem to be better through it.
Thanks
J.

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