Mini Bridge in CS5.5 opens but doesn't do anything

I am running CS5.5 on a MacBookPro. When I try to use Mini Bridge the little gray panel opens up but there is no "browse files" button, I can't open settings, I can't search, I can't do anything with it! Bridge works works just fine. I am including a screen shot of my MB window to show what I am seeing. I have tried everything I could think of including restarting Bridge and PS. Is there something else I need to try other than a complete reinstall of the App, which I will not do just to get MB to work.
Thanks for any and all suggestions.

I'm back to this discussion because I have never solved the problem. Today I uninstalled and reinstalled PS. I trashed preferences, checked to make sure Switchboard was working (it is), and have decided that my mini bridge extension is broken. Any place I can go to download a fresh copy? The window is dead. Even the settings selection doesn't bring anything up.
Thanks.

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