Spotlight perferences damaged-delete and rebuild?

Hello. It seems my Spotlight preferences are damaged. Symptoms are:
– From System Preferences to open Spotlight preferences either doesn't work at all or takes very long
- Spotlight menu keyboard shortcut / Spotlight window keyboard shortcut don't work, neither one chosen from the pulldown menu, nor one iserted manually. Any shortcut inserted manually doens't stick (doesn't appear when opening the opening the preferences pane next time).
Spotlight.prefPane sits in System/Library/PreferencesPanes. Can I safely delete it and have it rebuild on restart? Or do I misinterpret the problem?
Thanks a lot

Hey, I believe we are running into more troubles.
System Preferences don't show spotlight preferences item anymore
This means that the Spotlight application was deleted from the system preferences pane. If you haven't emptied the trash from after removing the Spotlight.prefpane then open the trash and drag it back in. You will get the Spotlight back in the system preferences.
Check the behavior of the System preferences pane and if the issue persists, consider a disk utility repair after booting from the disk. http://kb.wisc.edu/helpdesk/page.php?id=3810.
I am on a research to find out a solution
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