Functions palette missing icons (Report Gen. Toolkit))

Os: XP
Ver. Labview 2010
Hi all,
I am having problems with mig functions palette. For the Report Generation Toolkit there are missing icons , subpalettes are empty. I have tried to fix it in 2-3 hours without luck
Anyone who knows to how to get the Report Toolkit to ping to the right dir.mnu, llb, and .vi folders?
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If i am in edit Controls and Functions Palette Set, and browsing to Word tabel window which were empty before, its not empty in edit mode. If you go back to normal mode, than they are gone
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