Mini Bridge panel coming up empty - CS6

Hi
I tried opening mini bridge in InDesign today, but its showing an empty panel - see screen shot below
it has worked in the past, but I havent used it in a while
I tried trashing prefs already, but that didnt work
Running InDesign CS6 on Mac OSX 10.8
Any help on the matter will be appreciated
Thanks!
Davey

@ Peter
I tried that - help down opt key when starting bridge, chose to reset prefs and chaches.... but it didnt solve the problem
@ Steve
Mini Bridge DID work properly in a different user account!
But now what? How do I go about getting it to work in my user account?
Thanks
Davey

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