Sharing Preferences won't open

For some unknown reason I can't open the Sharing preferences pane, as a of very recently.
When I first open the pane it tells me:
*To use the “Sharing” preferences pane, System Preferences must quit and reopen*
So it quits and reopens, and then I get another error:
*Preferences Error*
*You can’t open Sharing preferences because it doesn’t work on an Intel-based Mac.*
Maybe there is a way to fix this with time machine? Can anyone help?

willkaufhold wrote:
When I first open the pane it tells me:
*To use the “Sharing” preferences pane, System Preferences must quit and reopen*
This message usually appears when a 32 bit System Preference is installed on a Mac running Snow Leopard in 64 bit mode: System Preferences by default runs in 64 bit mode & must restart in 32 bit mode to use 32 bit preference panels.
So it quits and reopens, and then I get another error:
*Preferences Error*
*You can’t open Sharing preferences because it doesn’t work on an Intel-based Mac.*
This would indicate that somehow you have a PPC-only version of the Sharing Preference installed.
Do you have any idea how this could have happened? For instance, did you drag anything from one OS to another, use Pacifist to install something, or run a utility that strips code resources from files, like Monolingual?

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Im running Tiger 10.4.6 on a MacBook Pro 2.0, connecting to the Internet through an ADSL router via an Airport Express base station, everything fully updated.
Suddenly, when trying to open the "Sharing" preference-pane, I get this error:
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Hello again, and thank you for your replies, and sorry for the late response.
First off; I have installed the latest 10.4.7 Combo Updater, but that did not install a new SharingPref.prefPane. I even removed the old one, before running the freshly downloaded Combo installer.
Actually, I did the exact same thing a week ago - same result.
So, in the meantime I had some work I needed to finish, so I didn't have time to investigate further, until this morning. Where I, much to my surprise, found the SharingPref.prefPane back in /Macintosh HD/System/Library/PreferencePanes/ and it was still the wrong version!
So "something" must be installing the wrong - old - SharingPref.prefPane. Well, I took a peek at my install log, searched for "sharing", and lo and
behold!
The mystery is - somewhat - solved. The old SharingPref.prefPane comes from and old Apple Remote Desktop 2.2 installer, that contains an installer called PantherSharing.pkg. See search from Console.app below.
What puzzles me, is the fact that I installed the wrong (old 2.2) version of ARD, to monitor a couple of servers, and of course uninstalled that version, and installed 3.0, the minute I realized my error.
How can that old installer keep "updating" my system, even after I've removed the old ARD? It's as if something is running the receipt, witch I funny enough, can't find on my system anymore.
The dates don't match either, or they do, but I would expect more entries from last week, where I removed the old SharingPref.prefPane and it mystically appeared again this morning.
The receipt must have run in the last week, but I can't find anything in my logs - install.log.0.gz OR install.log.
Maybe running a reciept dosen't get logged?
Ohh well Anyway - beneath is a copy of my log, and the question now is; How do I get the correct Pref-pane, when the Combo Installer doesn't install it?
Thanks for your help everybody, and shawnhm, thanks for Sharing my Pane ... Thank you, Thank you, I'm here all week
===============================
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May 27 14:40:17 tbo : @(#)PROGRAM:Installer PROJECT:Installer-94 DEVELOPER:root BUILT:Jan 13 2006 18:32:16\n
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May 27 14:40:18 tbo : It took 0.906322 seconds to finish launching.
May 27 14:40:20 tbo : Distribution: Remote Desktop
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May 27 14:40:36 tbo : admin auth received to install
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May 27 14:40:36 tbo : RemoteDesktopClient220.mpkg : com.apple.mpkg.ARDClient : 2.2.0.1660000.0
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May 27 14:40:36 tbo : RemoteDesktopRMDB733.pkg : com.apple.pkg.RemoteDesktopRMDB733 : 2.0.0.1660000.338
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