Mission Control and Expose Problems

All of a sudden my mission control gestures have stopped working.  Three fingers up did expose all the windows, but not all the desktops.  After restarting my computer, the three fingers up or down doesn't work at all, and the launchpad doesn't make the background disappear as it used to.  I tried multiple ways of fixing the issue, including turning all the gestures off and restarting and turning them all back on.  Can anyone help me fix this? It is a real pain.  Also, three fingers side to side still switches between the desktops.

Four fingers does bring me to mission control, but there is no bar at the top that shows the desktops that I have made.  Also, sometimes it glitches and all the windows disappear for a few seconds until I go back and forth across all the desktops a few times.  I remember when I went into launchpad before the windows I was working on would fade away, and they don't do that anymore either.

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