MobileMe Preference Pane missing

Where can I get the MobileMe preference pane if it's not showing up in my system preferences?
I have an iPod touch (which has MobileMe running just fine) and a MacBook (running OS 10.5.4 and MobileMe running just fine) and a mac desktop (also running 10.5.4, but no MobileMe pane!)
The instructions for MobileMe say to upgrade the OSX first, but I can't. I use the desktop for ProTools audio production, and can't afford to upgrade THAT software (I'm currently flat broke). For the version I have right now, it's not compatible with an OS higher than 10.5.4, so I'm not able to upgrade any higher. Is there ANOTHER way, besides upgrading the OS, to get the MobileMe pane onto this computer?

Have you got a pane called '.Mac'? - if so, that's it - the name hasn't been updated because you are technically using an earlier system than is compatible. It will still work, though you may find occasional oddities.

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Where is the mobileme preference pane?

MobileMe was discontinued.
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this is absolutely killing me.
System Preferences-> MobileMe [ok, that works fine]
click the tab for Sync... spinning beach ball of death. i have to force quit System Prefs every time.
somewhat related, my address book has become all fubar. duplicate groups, no actual address cards.
and that is honestly all i have to offer up as symptoms. everything else seems to be working fine. help!!!

I spent a couple of hours on the phone on Saturday moving up the ladder of Apple Technical Support trying to figure out a solution to this problem. Like the rest of you, I had these specific issues:
1. When I click on the sync tab of the Mobile Me preference pane, I get a beachball. This requires a force quit of System Preferences.
2. When I try to launch iSync, it never launches. Instead, it just bounces in the dock.
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With Apple, we tried all of the normal solutions to solve an issue with 1 user's profile like this: deleted preference files, deleted cache files, re-install Snow Leopard.
NONE OF THOSE SOLVED THE PROBLEM.
So, after all of that time on the phone, they determined that we needed to send the issue up to Apple Engineering. They sent me a diagnostic application that captured a whole bunch of data from my computer, which I sent back to them. The Engineering team is going to work on the problem and call me back in a couple of days.
So, my suggestion is that you should wait just a bit. I think a solution is forthcoming, but not here yet. Will this solution come in the form of a software update (10.6.1)? I don't know. I'll try to post after I hear back from Apple

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Running an iMac G5, OSX 10.4.6, 1GB RAM
I recently purchased a refurbished iMac. During setup I choose the move files from another computer (iBook G3 running OSX 10.4.6). This worked fine, moving my applications, documents and user information. I ran updates to bring the sytem to what was on the iBook. This was two days ago.
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Hi Doris, try this:
Navigate to ~(yourhome)/library/caches/com.apple.preferencepanes.cache and delete that file.
Then navigate to ~(yourhome)/library/preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist and delete that file.
Now relaunch system preferences. Let us know.
-mj
[email protected]
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Those items in preference panel come as default. Have you tried a Spotlight search for the items in the Pref Panel??
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Douglas,
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Ok, so I am an idiot. <crickets chirping>
Ok so no new's flash there. Apparently no universe either..."on own, on own....".
Here is my problem...
Here is the solution...
And there are the triangle thingies again...the visual cue I was missing was the tiny little label shown below circled in blue.
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Callsign: Alaskan boy.
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(I hope this isn't posted under another topic already..)
After reading a post on another site about missing user data in Snow Leopard (http://bit.ly/3wf3v7), I decided to do a little digging on my own machine to see if I'm experiencing any of the same issues..
First of all I'm not readily experiencing any particular bugs since upgrading from 10.5.8 to 10.6.1, but I did notice the following:
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-I have fast user switching on, and when I select it the account name at the upper right corner of the screen, it shows all of the accounts that the sys pref pane does not.
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Creating an account named abc did not bring back my previous accounts. I had installed Snow Leopard on my iMac several months ago. My hard drive was damaged by SnowLeopard family pack install disk that I was using to update my daughter's Macbook on Friday. When I opened my Mac in target disk mode, there was no system folder on the hard drive. I started to install 10.5.8 so I could use my iMac-didn't get it finished before going to work. Bought a new Snow Leopard install disk on the way home, cancelled the uncompleted install of 10.5.8, and the iMac booted up like a new machine.
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Startup Disks missing from Preference Pane - Help!

I have my Macbook partitioned with boot camp and I can start up in both Windows or OSX by holding down the option key and I get to choose my system.
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hi there,
since installing leopard on my iMac G4 (PPC) — which was previously running 10.3 - i have been experiencing problems with ichat. Namely, when I click on Preferences, I get just one window with general settings. See photo here — http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/4329/screenshot2ak7.jpg.
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Ahh.
I can see what they have done.
In most other Apps when you have a ToolBar as well as the red amber and green buttons to the top left there is normally a White/clear/uncloured oblong type button to the right.
This button is not there in the iChat Preferences pane.
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Hi there,
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Concerns me that this may indicate malevolent activity. Tried altering Server Prefs in case that hid the machine's tab, but no joy.
Would rather confirm that it isn't the result of an attack, though ClamXav shows nothing. Would also rather not have to reinstall the OS.
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