Color Picker Looks Like Crayons

Hi All, I am using Photoshop CS 4 on a 2.16ghz iMac running OSX 10.5.7.
My color picker looks like a crayon box, and I don't know how to get it to change to the regular/default color picker. Any ideas?
Thanks for all help provided,
Marty
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Mr. Maloney, You are awesome!!! Thanks for the help. I only spent almost two hours trying to figure out what you did in less than two minutes. I can't even tell you how many times I looked at that box and didn't see what needed to be changed.
Thanks again!
Marty

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