Intermittant greying out of filters in photoshop cs4?

Greetings everyone
This is probably a stupid question but why does photoshop occasionally grey out some of my filters?
Its often when i have a vector smart object [ie imported from IL], but even if i rasterize it, the filters remain grey and unusuable. not sure what convert for smart filters is meant to do - does anyone know? doesn't seem to do anything for me.
at the bottom of the page i have enclosed a picture of my problem
i'm stumped here and heap thanks upon you in advance
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d188/OphidianShenzi/greyfilters.jpg

16 bpc (image > mode)?

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