Can't see fill or stroke even with color activated

This is a newbie question, but for the life of me I can't figure out what's going on. At some point while I was working on an Illustrator CS2 file, I  accidentally moved or misclicked on an object, and then its fill and  stroke disappeared. In the tool panel, fill and stroke are still  activated and are still the same color they were before, I just can't  see them on the actual image. I can only see the path. Other objects are  still visible, and I've been trying to compare their attributes with  those of the invisible object, but I haven't been able to figure out the  difference.
Any help would be appreciated!

Phobic,
In your Layers screenshot, I count Compound Shapes nested fifteen levels deep. That is an absolutely ridiculous construct, and it is no wonder you are having display problems.
Select the topmost Compound Shape listed in the Layers palette. Release Compound Shape. Repeat this until you have no more Compound Shapes. Then stay away from the Pathfinder palette until you understand it. (See online Help.) You don't need it for the simply line art you are drawing, based on the screenshot.
Realize: The Layers palette lists every object in the document. So not everything listed there is a Layer or a SubLayer. Those items titled Compound Shapes are not Layers; they're objects.
For the kind of artwork you are trying to draw, first get your head around ordinary Compound Paths. When you have to use one closed path to punch a hole in another, use the Object>Compound Path>Make command, not the Pathfinder palette. Compound Paths are basic constructs common across all vector drawing programs. That top row of icons in the Pathfinder palette create compound paths applied as a "live effect"--an Illustrator-specific construct, and one that will just confuse you until you understand the basics of compound paths.
Understand that each subpath of a compound path has its own winding direction. The winding direction, together with the winding rule, determine whether the subpath "punches" or creates a void in the surrounding subpath. Illustrator does a poorer job of automatically handling those settings than other programs, so you often have to change the direction of direct-selected subpaths. Those settings are in the Attributes palette.
JET

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