Cannot view layers beneath top layer

Hi
I am facing this problem in my Adobe Photoshop CS3, where I cannot view any layer other than the topmost layer in my document window upon selecting it. It does get selected when I click on it in the layer menu, and the document window title bar does show the name of the selected layer although it continues to display the top layer instead of the one that I have selected. Also, the visibility icon (the eye) is on for all layers, so that is not the problem.
I tried resetting default settings, but this still continues to happen. Please help!
Thanks!
Bhumycka.
p.s. - I use Windows Vista.

Sounds perfectly normal to me, check out this page about how layers in Photoshop work:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/11.0/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-78e2a.html

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