Lost Sharing Preference Folder

This is really strange! I just was looking at my Preferance Panel window and my Sharing icon has disappeared. I tried the apple help, and when I selected "Open File Sharing" I got a warning that file sharing was either disabled or not installed. I know it was there previously, because I had set up my computer to share my printer with other computers in the house, and it worked well. I noticed this problem because my son was unable to use the shared printer last night. Any solutions to this problem would be most appreciated.

It's also possible that your file sharing is off and that there is also some icon corruption. I'd try trashing these 2 files:
Navigate to ~(yourHome)/Library/Caches/com.apple.preferencepanes.cache
~(yourHome)/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist
Then relaunch System Preferences.
-mj
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Anyway 0 in my case there is definately a red "no-go" sign on my other accounts user folder - I can't open it and I get the "insufficient priviliges" message if I try."If you check the Ownership & Permissions of the Users folder, you should find that the Group admin has Access of "Read & Write." So, an Admin user (administrator account) can open the Users folder. All Admin accounts should be part of the admin Group.
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