Layer Palette Empty

Working in version CS4 on a file with lots of picts/text etc and my only layer in the layer palette does not show any objects listed.
Is there a trick I am missing? I deleted the Preferences by holding shift/con/opt/com but it didn't help.
Thanks!

That explains it.
I'd like to be able to delete items directly from the links and/or layer palette, and relayer/reorder items (without going to Arrange) as in Illustrator. Guess I'm out of luck.
Thanks Bob.

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I would try:
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http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/409/kb409112.html

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Thanks for the reply, Harron.
I'm using CS4 & below.
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Please bring the color box back to vector shapes!
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I think it was a fair assessment given the circumastances of the answer you provided, Jeanne. Also, another thing is that posting under an "employee" account, you are speaking for the company. You are representing the company whether it is your intention or not. Even if you explictly state that what you say is your personal opinion, people might have mixed feelings about what you say and mistake it for a belief that the whole company shares. So be careful with that, just as a note for the future.
But anyway, as for the issue at hand... That still doesn't give us anything other than "we won't do it." And again, I advise you to look through the post I referenced to. There are some very easy solutions there that help make the layers palette much easier to scan and work with. It's not too difficult to fix this and as already said above, you're already working on a fix for the thumbnails themselves anyway.
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