Local Adjustment Brush and Gradient Tools not working in LR3.2

I am not sure what i did, but those tool have stopped working.  I don't know how i manged to do this or if it is a bug, but i noticed that the color palette is gone from the setting tab for these two tools.  If you look on the right tab of the screen shot, you can see that where the colour box used to be, there's nothing.  Not even the box with an "x."  If i try and use either tool, the whole frame just turns pure grey.  Any thoguths or Help would be much appreciated.  I'm hoping that maybe i accidentally clicked or hit a key i didn't notice.
Thanks!

Try trashing the Lightroom preference file http://forums.adobe.com/thread/358041?tstart=0

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