Lightroom Navigation and Develop panels are completely absent on first opening the program

I just downloaded Lightroom 5 from Creative Cloud onto my MacBook Air laptop, and I’m stymied. When I opened the application for the first time, neither the navigation panel on the left nor the development panel on the right appeared, and there is no hint of those panels existing. Also, the warning "An error occurred when attempting to change modules” appeared when I opened the program for the first time. Both issues persist each time I open Lightroom - so I'm completely unable to import photos or get started.  I’ve search the web for fixes and tried many suggestions but nothing has changed either of the problems above.  Also, in Creative Cloud, if I try to uninstall Lightroom, the message appears "Uninstall Unavailable" and there is no way to uninstall the program through the Utilities.  By the way, I use Lightroom routinely on another computer, so I am quite familiar with the program.  Help!!

Dear Jim
Problem solved by following these instructions (from another forum):
Solution 5: Set correct permissions on Lightroom folder inside Application Support 
The Lightroom folder inside Application Support could have the wrong permissions preventing Lightroom from writing to it which can cause this error.
Navigate to the following folder: /Users/[user name]/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Lightroom
Highlight the Lightroom folder and chose File > Get Information
Under Sharing & Permission, verify that your have Read & Write Privileges. If not, click the padlock icon at the lower right, enter your password when prompted, then click the Read only entry and select Read & Write.
Thank you for trying to help!
Susan

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