Processor Preferences Panel...missing?

In 10.5, I used Onyx to activate the Processor Preferences pane in System Preferences. After upgrading to 10.6, it's not there anymore. Was this moved to a new location in Snow Leopard?
thanks...

Well, by the time I saw your last response, I was on the phone with Apple support. They had me login as root, and install the Processor Preferences pane under the super-user account.
When I did, it said that in order to use the Processor Pane it would first need to be installed, which it did. It's working now.
Well, there are two things.
First, it's 32-bit, so when I run it from the 64 bit preference panel, it would restart System Preferences using the 32-bit version. Apple suggested that I may want to do a 'Get Info' on the System Preferences app in the Applications directory and select the 32-bit version instead of the native 64-bit as the default.
One more thing - we couldn't figure out how to get the icon to display in the Menu Bar. Even if I check the option, it's ignored and will appear unset the next time the pane is opened. That's no a big deal for me. The important thing is that the CPU settings do work as expected.
Cheers...

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