Restoring System Preferences in Mavericks with Time Machine

I'm trying to get back to an earlier version of the System Preferences with Time Machine.  All goes well until I hit restore, and then I get the notification that "“System Preferences” can’t be modified or deleted because it’s required by OS X."    Am I doing something wrong? 

Try restoring the preference file to the Desktop and try manually, with Admin password, to replace the existing file.
To restore to a cifferent location Command (right) - click on the file in TM and select this contextual menu option:
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