Boris Title 3D -Can't Skew all of a sudden

I previously had been able to skew text in Boris 3D. After a few weeks off, I re-opened it and tried again, but the text won't skew now. I have the text selected (I'm following a DVD tutorial) and have gone over it several times with no luck.
I have trashed the preferences 3 times this morning, and the last time also repaired permissions, then restarted the computer. STILL won't work. One clue may be that it seems that some preference is still in place as the text in Boris is in big red letters which is what I had used a previous time, not the default black or white.
Any ideas on how to fix this?

I also should have mentioned that:
I can change basic font characteristics like color and size, but any of the fancier stuff like drop shadows or applying styles from the style palette don't work.

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That's what I thought, that when I set everything up, animation/roll, and switch to my video tab in the Viewer - there's nothing there, even when I scrub back and forth bewteen my in and my outpoint, I do not see my text scrolling up and down. I dragged it into my timeline, scrolled through it, but didn't render it - could that be the issue? I didn't render 'cause I didn't see anything there TO render. And, I thought I would have seen it in the Viewer window. Maybe I'll try rendering, and see what happens...
I did originally try it in the FCP scrolling text generator, and yes, all of the scrolling text is there. But the reason I want to put it into Boris is because it's still 'wavy', despite putting on a de-interlacer, and fixing the whiteness, etc...
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