Can't select individual elements

I have a website developed by an outside firm. When I open a page in Dreamweaver (CS4 or CS%)  in design view and click on any object in the page, the entire outer wrapper div gets selected. I can't use the tag selector or select any single element, piece of text, or object. This is extremely frustrating.
Does anyone have any idea what causes this or how to fix it?
Thanks,
Patty Bradley
University of Michigan

Hi Patty,
did you look here:
where you can switch on/off your sight. Here is the link to Adobe-Help:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/dreamweaver/cs/using/WScbb6b82af5544594822510a94ae8d65-7fc5a.h tml
Look to this paragraph:
Status bar overview
The Status bar at the bottom of the Document window provides additional information about the document you are creating.
A. Tag selector
Tag selector: Shows the hierarchy of tags surrounding the current selection. Click any tag in the hierarchy to select that tag and all its contents. Click <body> to select the entire body of the document. To set the class or ID attributes for a tag in the tag selector, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) the tag and select a class or ID from the context menu.
Hans-G.

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