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Imagine the following scenario: You can't connect with VNC to your iMac/Mac Mini that runs Mac OS X Snow Leopard. The Screen Sharing service is not enabled. Anyway Remote Login (ssh) is available. What can you do?

Well, you can just start the Service via ssh with:
$ sudo touch /private/etc/ScreenSharing.launchd

Another way I which I did not check is to execute this statement:
$ echo -n enabled > /Library/Preferences/com.apple.ScreenSharing.launchd

Wow, that sime! Now you can connect to your machine via VNC and work with the mouse. ;-)
I hope this helps you like it helped me a lot.