Missing Blue Apple Menu

Hello,
I was having some difficulty exporting a slideshow (it kept freezing). I used Onyx to 'clean' system caches... now, I am still unable to export slideshow.. but a bigger concern is that my blue apple on the menu bar has no menu drop below it.
I'm out of ideas, so any suggestions would be greatly appreciated..
Thanks!

You may be able to repair this with the 10.4.6 Stand Alone Combo Updater. (assuming your system is still 10.4.6 and you are on an Intel model.)
This is a fuller install, as opposed to an incremental "delta" update so it should overwrite any files that are damaged or missing. It does not matter if you have applied it before. It has worked well for many.
Remember to Verify Disk before update and repair permissions after update from /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.
-mj
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