No file sharing option in Sharing pref panel

Hi,
MacBookPro 2.53 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Mac OS X 10.6.8
Sharing pref pane (all accounts, even root) don't offer file sharing option.
I suspect it happened after installing Amazon Cloud Share or TeamViewer. I uninstalled both but no change.
I tried to use MacOS update 10.6.8 to fix my system but had this message :
Thank you

HI again,
I could not boot in safe mode (nor with other modifier keys -single user -verbose mode and -target mode (but I could fix target mode with Startup panel)).
So I booted from my last CCC copy, which did not have the same problem. Update wouldn't install either (same javascript evaluation bug - I'd like to know more about that).
So I restored from time machine because it was more recent that my CCC backup.
All works then with Sharing Pane.
I kept my old status in a disk image if ever I need something I erased.
I made the combo installyou gave me just to be sure.
Thank you for the link to Pondini, I learnt a lot.
We can mark 'Solved".
Thank you

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