Icons in menu bar gone

All the icons in the menu bar on the top right have disappeared. Time, airport status, time machine, battery status, everything. I've gone into system preferences and tried to set the icon to show up, but it resets itself to the off status when I click out of the particular menu. I also found out taking screen shots by doing command+shift+3 doesn't work anymore either, despite it being enable in system preferences.

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