Spotlight icon keeps dissapearing

Hi, can someone help me please.
I have recently installed Mavericks on my Unibody MacBook (late 2008) and have gotten everything set up working just fine, no problems - except for one: my spotlight icon seems to want to dissapear most of the time, and seems to have a mind of its own. Not sure why this is happening so have posted my question here.
I do have some software installed that sits in the menubar (Adobe Creative Cloud, Plex Server, Boom (sound util), f.lux, dropbox, and an old version of MainMenu). This problem was around before i installed any of these things as far as I recall but in any event I've tried quitting all these apps to make it a clean menubar, and still the spotlight icon chooses to dissapear and reappear at will. I've run disk permission from within Disk Utilty and also run MainMenu to clean the system, but this hasn't helped.
Has anyone ran across the same problem, and if so - how did you fix it?
Many thanks.
Matt

Open the Finder. From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder
Type or copy paste the following:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systemuiserver.plist
Click Go then move the com.apple.systemuiserver.plist file to the Trash
Retart your Mac. Hopefully the Spotlight icon has reappeared.
If that didn't help, one or more (Cloud, Plex Server, Boom (sound util), f.lux, dropbox, and an old version of MainMenu)) may not be compatible and can't be used the status menu bar.
Yuo can remove items from the status menu bar by holding down the Command key and dragging the icon off the menu bar.
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