Color distortion when editing in PSE9

In the past few days I've suddenly been getting some really weird color anomalies in my editing windows when using PSE9. The bright areas are being filled with globs of optical primary red and the shadows are being filled with optical primary blue.
Has anyone else experienced this? Will I need to uninstall and reinstall PSE9 to fix it? And if I do, will importing tagged images rebuild my extensive tag hierarchy?
Any help will be much appreciated!
~hazel

Yes, and Bless you Barbara!!! LOL I must have accidentally clicked the boxes in my previous session.
I love easy fixes and I'm so happy I decided to start an account and ask here before reinstalling. If I could reach you, I'd give you a hug!
Thank you!

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