Several applications have disappeared and I do not have the startup disks. What do I do?

I have an early 2009 iMac with an intel core 2 duo and am running Mac OS X 10.6.8 and for some reason applications such as ichat and photobooth have disappeared. For ichat even the icon is gone, where as photobooth has that white circle with a diagonal line through it and when i click on it, it says that the application is unable to open due to it being damaged or incomplete. When I try to do timeline it tells me it hasn't been set up and I do not have the original disks since I've moved a few times since I've gotten this computer. It also wont update. It keeps telling me that the updates have failed to install or whatever. So what do I do?
Thank you!
Masha

I have an early 2009 iMac with an intel core 2 duo and am running Mac OS X 10.6.8 and for some reason applications such as ichat and photobooth have disappeared. For ichat even the icon is gone, where as photobooth has that white circle with a diagonal line through it and when i click on it, it says that the application is unable to open due to it being damaged or incomplete. When I try to do timeline it tells me it hasn't been set up and I do not have the original disks since I've moved a few times since I've gotten this computer. It also wont update. It keeps telling me that the updates have failed to install or whatever. So what do I do?
Thank you!
Masha

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