Layers palette thumbnail sizes

Using PSE version 2. Works great! Love it! Except... I cannot change the size of the thumbnails in the Layers palette. They remains small no matter what I do. Mysteriously, when I open a file from Jan Kabili's PSE2 Course, all the thumbnails sizes work fine. I can make them small, medium, large. Now, what could be going on here? Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!
Jim Franck

Greetings -
Thanks for your response (below) which caused me to do some 
experiments with Photoshop Elements 2. This is what I discovered:
• Opening a new file in any normal rectangular preset format, print 
or Web-oriented, creates a Layers palette that functions as 
advertised - that is, using the palette's contextual menu or the 
"Palette Options" under the "More" button at the top of the palette 
allows you to change the thumbnail size in the palette - small, 
medium, etc. No problems. Eureka! and all that.
• However, opening a new file as a preset "468 x 60 web 
banner" (which is what I was doing when I encountered the "problem") 
constrains the thumbnail in the Layers palette to small - no other 
size options available. After a moment's thought, I realized that, 
because the thumbnail for a banner is disproportionately wider than 
it is high, allowing for a medium or large thumbnail while 
maintaining the thumbnail's proportionality would necessitate a 
palette that would be impractically large.
So, it's not a program flaw, it's a feature - how often this seems to 
happen.
Thanks for your note which prompted my investigation. I guess the 
"take away" from this is that, if you ever get another similar 
question, you might ask the inquirer if, by chance, they were working 
on a web banner preset size when they encountered the difficulty. 
Maybe they're as dense as I am and never made the connection.
Jim Franck
"Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the 
middle of it."
- P. J. O’Rourke

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