Brush 'Tool Presets' not resizing and behaving erratically.

Hello all,
I'm running Ps CS6 Extended on a Macbook Pro running OS X 10.6.8. My problem is that suddenly my brush 'tool presets' seem to have gone crazy. Standard pencil brushes won't resize (in fact anything with a texture ticked on in the brush panel seems to be having trouble) and others are just spitting out plain old rubbish.
I haven't updated anything or run anything different.. It just seemed to happen and now won't go back...
Is this an issue that anyone has encountered before? Let me know what other info would be helpful to fully explain the issue...
A similar thing did happen with one random brush ages ago. I couldn't resolve it so I just ignored it. But now my whole set is messed up. It's weird...

Thanks, Trevor.
I've tried, restarting everything. I've tried opening the .tpl's in an older version of Photoshop that I have (CS5.1 Extended) - and they work fine (that version also has Colourus 2 and Perspective Create extensions that I have on CS6), so I know the .tpl's are sound and the brush info is saved correctly in them.
I tried 'reset brushes' in the tool preset drop down menu... But I don't know what "reset Preferences" is - should I be looking in Photoshop>Preferences...?
I tried 'reset tool' but that just makes the brushes go back to their earliest round brush form.
Any other ideas? Thanks for thinking on this...

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