Safari icon has a "?" on it

The Safari icon in my dock has a grey "?" over it. Nothing happens when I click the icon to launch it. There is no Safari icon in my Applications folder.
I'm using Firefox now but I want to get Safari back.
Help!

isn't it dumb? you can't download apple's web browser for mac from their website. instead, you need to look for you installer disc,and find the application from there.... dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb.
well, i have this problem too. did some searching in here and found this. thanks anyway.

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