Cédric Luthi has posted another take on the mechanics of reopening a System Preferences pane (or is it panel?). Worth a read; however, I would propose a shorter piece of code for his relaunch snippet, combining two of my recent posts:

int main(int argc, char **argv) { 
   char dummy; 
   read(STDIN_FILENO, &dummy, 1); 
   CFURLRef url = CFURLCreateFromFileSystemRepresentation(kCFAllocatorDefault, (UInt8*)argv[1], strlen(argv[1]), FALSE); 
   CFArrayRef aurl = CFArrayCreate(kCFAllocatorDefault, (const void**)&url, 1, NULL);
   FSRef ref;
   if (LSFindApplicationForInfo(0, CFSTR("com.apple.systempreferences"), NULL, &ref, NULL)==noErr) {
      LSApplicationParameters parms = {0,kLSLaunchDefaults,&ref,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL};
      LSOpenURLsWithRole(aurl, kLSRolesAll, NULL, &parms, NULL, 0);
      }
   }
}

and the code to launch this tool (from within the preference panel itself) is:

   NSTask* task = [[NSTask alloc] init]; 
   [task setLaunchPath:@"/path/to/tool"]; 
   [task setArguments:[NSArray arrayWithObject:[[NSBundle bundleForClass:[self class]] bundlePath]]]; 
   [task setStandardInput:[NSPipe pipe]]; 
   [task launch]; 
   [NSApp terminate:nil];

No need to pass the calling program’s process identifier, and it works from Tiger (10.4) on up.