hmm, no that didn't really make my day, but thanks for the bump.
i know there SHOULD be two clips holding the bearing to the fork (i will go back and edit my original post accordingly), but my question was something along the lines of should i let this worry me too much? car parts are hard for me to get, as my car is out of aciton at the moment.
for example, there is a certain clip that should be involved in my front brake calipers, it isn't there and so far the world is still revolving.
anyone else? in a perfect world, i would go buy two completely new clips, in an even more perfect world whoever replaced the clutch last time wouldn't have lost one. then maybeye i wouldn't have to be fixing it now.