System Preferences is Damaged - Repair?

[antdgar]

Hi,

My dad bought a macbook pro a few days ago and he deleted some things; iphoto and photobooth to name a few.

I told him to go to system preferences and he gets an error message saying something about 'system preferences may be damaged'
And it does not open.

Is there a way to fix this? He has the snow leopard installation disks etc.

 

[Chappers]

Hi,

My dad bought a macbook pro a few days ago and he deleted some things; iphoto and photobooth to name a few.

I told him to go to system preferences and he gets an error message saying something about 'system preferences may be damaged'
And it does not open.

Is there a way to fix this? He has the snow leopard installation disks etc.

Its just when you say he deleted iPhoto and Photobooth to name a few that I worry just what else has been deleted.

Back up any data he has collected in these few days and re-install Snow Leopard. Don't let him delete stuff until you've checked its OK.