OMG freaking out please help!!  Installer won't install..Disk Utility gone?

Newer mac user here with very little osx experience. First post on the forums really hoping you can help.
I have a couple issues right now. First of all, lately when I try to install apps nothing happens. More specifically, when I click on the .pkg file nothing happens. The screen kind of flashes (it doesn't really flash, but I don't know how else to describe it) like it wants to do something, but then.....nothing. This has happened recently with both a divx codec I downloaded from divx.com and also with neooffice. I have tried dumping the neooffice download in the trash and redownloading and trying to reinstall and it does the same thing everytime.....nothing.
Second....can someone tell me exactly what is supposed to be in the applications/utility folder? I thought there was a disk utility program in there that would allow me to reset permissions, but I can't find it!! I can't find it using finder either!! I am freaking out a little bit here and any help will be GREATLY appreciated.
Thank you for your help in advance!

Sounds like you trashed a few things from your Utilities folder. For details on restoring one or more missing pieces, see my post at:
http://discussions.apple.com/messageview.jspa?messageID=2407797

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