System preferences speech button & activate Web Sharing Folder

Hi!
I was trying to active Personal Web Sharing, but it didn't get activate, I close the preferences windows and opened it again, sudden I saw my SPeech button was gone. How can I fix that hole?
Picture: http://tmn.nux.no/irc/bilder/Picture%202.png
I've tried to log out and in. And also a reboot.
EDIT:
OK. I searched the forum and found an answer!
(http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3386071&#3386071)
But now, I can't activate my Web Saring Folder... It just hangs

solution:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=747906#747906

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Pogue, David (2011-10-19). Mac OS X Lion: The Missing Manual: The Missing Manual (pp. 816-817). OReilly Media - A. Kindle Edition.
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