It seams as if all my workspaces, tools, and effects in Illustrator CS5.1 have gone missing..

So I opened up Illustator this morning, and had none of the workspace tools, or UI elements im used to, only the canvas. I assumed they were hidden, so pressed tab, but that did nothing either. I looked though the menu items, and where the settings for disabiling and adding UI elements usally is, there was nothing. Also, it apears all of the effects are gone too. Ive attached some screen shots of the issue.
Any help would be appricated! This obviously is a huge issue for my workflow..
Thanks.

UPDATE: I deleted my .plst file, and that seamed to fix the issue. Sorry for not doing this sooner, but if anyone else has had this issue, that seams to be the fix!

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