Color Palette missing options.

My color palette on pages only has the spectrum. They other options like the "crayon box" is missing. How do I fix this? I don't have the "lozenge" at the upper right of the color palette?

Peter,
In 10.8.3, I no longer have the lozenge button in the upper right either. Could you check on your ML system and see if you still have it there? I'm OK because I still have the color picking option buttons, but I don't have any option to hide them or show them, they're just there all the time.
Edit: I wonder if the OP had the options turned off when upgrading to ML and now can't change back to showing the options. Edit again: I see the OP shows Lion 10.7.5, but we can't always trust that either...
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