Lightroom 4.3 toolbars

For some strange reason the right hand side toolbars have all changed from color to B&W on me. I am NOT in B&W mode, I'm in Color develop mode. The usual color sliders have changed to all white and grey giving no color indications in any of the sub panels. The only thing thats in color is the Histogram. I can't figure out how to switch everyhting back to color and I've looked everywhere!
Thanks in advance for any help!

If you mean this issue, then it's because you've just upgraded to OS X Mavericks.
http://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/kb/sliders-lightroom-all-white-look.html
This is fixed in Lightroom 5.2 and later (paid upgrade from Lightroom 4). Earlier versions are stuck with white sliders.

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