Missing 'Sharing' in System Prefs

I recently upgraded to Leopard and I'm missing 'Sharing' in my System Preferences. I've searched, but haven't found any fixes. I ran 10.5.1 update, restarted and still not 'Sharing' in the prefs. Any ideas? Thanks in advance for any help.

CutPoch,
I had the same problem on one of my machines.
I used Pacifist to extract the "Sharing Preferences Pane" from the Leopard disk.
Then put the sharing preference pane in System/Library/Preference Panes
Worked for me... If you have another computer running Leopard, you can just copy the pane and transfer it to the computer you are using.

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