Blank Illustrator Swatch Windows?

I just upgraded my iMac to OSX Mountain Lion, and now, when I try to open a swatch window in Illustrator (5.1), the window is blank, like so:
This happens with the default swatches as well as the Pantone ones. I've been able to load the same swatches in both Indesign and Photoshop. Google has been no help-is there something I'm missing here?

Often when you update software especially the system then ther permissions become set wrong.
Try to repair the permissions with the disk utility and you might alos have to rest the prefernces
1. Quit Illustrator.
2.Go to User/username/Library/Preferences/ Adobe illustrator CS5 Settings and trash the settings folder or rename it (s0omething like old Illustrator settings), the whole folder not just the contents of the folder..
3. Start Illustrator. Illustrator creates a new preferences file.
On the mac in order to find the Library folder you hold down the option key and go to teh GO menu.

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This seemed like it was a problem through at least one iteration of Photoshop proper, and thankfully was either finally fixed, or I figured out how to use the interface differently.
You need to be able to make displays of your swatches look like this below for them to be of much use. The Photoshop Elements display above is unacceptable.
You might think that if you chose the larger size squares that the problem would go away? NOPE.
Of all the companies in the world to let something like this pass, Adobe should be at the bottom of the list. Please, please tell me I'm wrong, that I'm an idiot, and that there is a way to make this display properly.

OKAY. So, this is how to solve the problem yourself...
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If you'd like, you can download a zipped copy of the ACO file I made here: http://www.xsonn.com/pub/Default_small_ACO.zip.
On Windows 7, PSE10 likes to store presets in this folder:"C:\Users\{USER_NAME}\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Photoshop Elements\10.0\Presets\Color Swatches\"
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If you just have a hankering to build your own, or you want to fix other swatch collections... The overall fix takes place in two steps. One, adding 'blanks' in the main UI. Then, after that you then have to move them around, but ONLY AFTER selecting Preset Manager... above. And then after leaving the preset manager, you can save your collection out. Easy... but not easy.
Don't get me wrong. I am still infuriated, crazed, and insanely angry that I cannot just resize this window. This is really just my own little way of proving it.
Cheers! =)`

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Thanks a lot Mylenium.
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knot,
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