Full Screen viewing of images in Bridge CS3

I have Bridge CS3 on my macbook pro that I generally use when I'm on the road. Up until last week, I would use the space bar to view images in full screen mode. Now, mysteriously, pressing the space bar does nothing and I can't for the life of me figure out how to view images at full screen (without resorting to starting a slideshow playback).
Has anyone else experienced this before? Can you offer any help?
Thanks!
J

Can you offer any help?
First thing to try when sudden odd behavior starts is resetting the preferences. Hold down option (alt) key while restarting Bridge, from the pop up window choose reset preferences and try again.
Be aware that Bridge CS3 was the version with the most problems, maybe you have already a newer version? if so you may install and use this on two machines. Otherwise consider an upgrade, you will surely benefit from that

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