Question mark over certain applications

Hello, today I realized that my iMac was acting strange when I clicked on a few applications that I have on the dock and instead of them opening they simply had a question mark hover over the. These applications are DVD player, photo booth, mail, and a few others. I believe this may be that someone, I suspect my cousin, deleted them accidentally. Is there a way of recovering these basic applications?
Thank you.

question mark over an item in the dock means that the original item can not be found because it was either moved or deleted. first check you main Applications folder. that's where those things should be by default. if they are not there they may have been moved, do a spotlight search for them. try it from all user accounts you have on the mac as sometimes people move the apps to the desktop or a place like that. also check the Trash on all accounts. if the apps are nowhere to be found you can reinstall them from the leopard install DVD using pacifist
http://www.charlessoft.com/
you'll have to install 10.5.7 combo update afterwards to bring those apps to their latest versions.

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