My desktop and screensaver utility has disapeared from preferences!!!

my desktop and screensaver utility has disapeared from preferences!!! How do I get it back?
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Use Pacifist to extract a new copy of the DesktopScreenEffectsPref.prefPane from your Mac OS X 10.4 installation disks, and then run the combo updater for your version of Mac OS X.
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Hello t:
recently for no reason whenever i try to go to desktop and screensaver option in the system preferences it crashes automatically and means i have to force quit it.
If it crashes, there should not be a force quit required. What do you see in the crash logs?
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