System Preferences always loads in 32-bit because I used CleanMyMac, XSlimmer!

Hi everyone,
I come to you today feeling very foolish. In a stupid attempt to remove unneeded files etc from my new macbook air I downloaded both cleanmymac and xslimmer (monolingual too). However, now I notice that system preferences always loads as 32-bit because in the title bar it says 'System Preferences (32-Bit mode). I cannot get it out of this. When I click cmnd + info the 32-bit box is not checked. I fear one of these programs may have stripped the 64-bit architecture needed! Does anyone have any advice or solutions? Preferebley without re-installing Lion because this laptop is new this week and I haven't yet made a back-up! I know I am an idiot! But any help from you amazing people out there would, as always, be greatly appreciated!
iJomo

Hi Lex,
Thank you very much for your reply. I did what you said and I got the following reponse;
joeair:~ Joe$ sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot 'Kernel Flags' 'arch=x86_64
> sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot 'Kernel Flags' 'arch=x86_64
Password:
2011-10-25 11:51:20.453 defaults[321:707] Unexpected argument Flags arch=x86_64; leaving defaults unchanged.
joeair:~ Joe$
Needless to say, System Preferences is still 32-bit mode.
Thanks for trying, any idea where to go from here?
iJomo

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