Why did iphoto suddenly disappear from my computer?

I tried to launch iphoto from my dock last night and it had a ? mark on the icon. I looked for the application on my computer and it is gone. Nothing in the trash and I am the only user of this computer. I have reinstalled the application but I would like to know why this happened. Microsoft Word also dissappeared in the same way. Could this be an OSX problem? I am currently running OSX 10.6.8. Has anyone had similar issues?

I actually did have a similar problem. iPhoto never left but I saw a generic "piece of paper with the 'A' application symbol" application icon in iPhoto's place with a ø symbol over that. It said iPhoto was corrupt or was missing files so it wouldn't let me open it. Not that it mattered in my case because I never use it, but nevertheless this is still a mystery to me.

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