Audio/Instrument objects "locked" in place??

Hello on this rainy Sunday, at least for me in Canada! Perfect day to stay in and work on music.
While building a new template for myself in Logic, all of a sudden I was unable to move my audio and instrument faders in the audio view of the enviroment. It was as if they were suddenly "locked" in place. Have I hit a key command that does this by accident?
Any ideas as to why this is happening, and how to reverse it?

Turn off protect environment objects, it's in one of the environment local menus. When this is on, no environment objects can be moved or deleted.

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express 7.2.3, and hey guess what, no audio
instruments. So i go to CREATE MULTIPLE, and i get
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