Disappearing Channel Strip slots & Plug-ins?

Just bouncing down a project i've almost finished. For some reason (and i have experienced this problem before over a few versions of Logic now) the top section of the control strip for outputs 1-2, 3-5, 5-6 and plugs-ins used for them have disappeared. Instead of the usual display of slots which you could select various plug-ins in, all i can see now is a solid grey strip (if this making sense?). Anyone know how to make the full strip visible again? I've tried looking in Environment, but its just the same there.
I've thought of simply changing the plug-ins to by-pass via the automation on the arrange page but they aren't even listed now. Odd
Here is a link to an image to help illustrate the problem
http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg272/kingcannibal/bugger.png

That's due to the Master fader being surround. So either your prelisten channels turned surround when listening to some surround loops from the Library or any other channel in your project is set to surround causing the Master channels to switinch to surround mode. If you locate the surround channel in your environment/mixer and switch it back to stereo everything will be fine again.

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