Albums don't display thumbnails; goes straight to edit

Whenever I click on one of my albums I get one of the photos in that particular album in edit. I don't see all the thumbnails as I did before. The only way I can see thumbnail photos is to actually click on "edit" and then thumbnails will appear above the photo. Because of this, I can no longer burn, copy, drag, etc., any of the photos. It had worked perfectly until I accidentally bumped the keyboard, evidently hitting some of the keys, and now I have this situation. I've checked the actions listed under preferences but nothing there seems to work. Any suggestions?

Note the slider lower right of the iPhoto Window - drag it left.
Regards
TD

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ORIGINAL MESSAGE POSTED TO APPLE SUPPORT
Ever since .MAC was recently down - and converted to Mobile Me - I have been having problems with my iWEB site:
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its slow.
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(of note: I performed the MobileME system update yesterday and that did nothing)
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2. Text Box FRAMES are now Visible - when they were not before!
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Merci!
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Problem solved!! You get a gold star!!
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>Sorry, but that is plain BS
Let's try to be a bit less flamey, shall we?
>For starters, in order to use the laptop's keyboard, the external monitor has to be way too high, or the laptop/keyboard way too low, since the darned laptop screen gets in the way.
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>Secondly, your scheme underscores the futility of using a laptop and takes away any portability advantage you may have had.
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>Third, you won't be generating much income doing photography or Photoshop work on a lousy laptop screen "in the islands", or at least not for long. You may have earned your vacation, but the laptop sure isn't going to "pay for it". You may permanently lose some clients instead.
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> I stand by my fundamental aversion to laptops.
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I'm running windows 8 with PSE 11 ans some of my pic don't display only a gray box with a paper in side it, when i go to a albums most of my pic don't display

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Hey Jim
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Also, are you in the regular shell or the rescue shell ? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gr … mand_shell
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