My Adobe color picker won't appear.

Hi,
I've Googled this without success. For some reason the Adobe color picker is missing from my Photoshop 8.0. I don't know when it went missing. When I double click a swatch in the toolbox or swatches pallet or fill layers or effects window or anywhere I can think of to get the color picker to pop up I get nothing. My eyedropper tool gets activated, but there is no color picker to be seen.
I've changed my screen resolution to maximum to see if it was lost on an outer realm of the desktop and didn't find it. I've also gone to Window > Workspace > Reset Pallet Locations but still no luck. I've gone into Photoshop's Preferences > General > Color Picker and the Adobe option is selected which I've toggled in and out of it in case it needed to reset itself, but I still get nothing. Right now I'm getting by on my Apple color picker, which I find very limiting. I still have all the Pantone, TruMatch, etc., files in Applications > Adobe Photoshop > Presets > Color Books folder, but no Adobe color picker to access them with. My Mac's Home > Library > Color Picker folder appears empty (assuming I don't need to un-hide anything to see all file types).
So my questions are these...
1) What is the file name and extension of Adobe Photoshop's color picker? Maybe I'll be able to search my system for it and locate it somewhere.
2) What folder is it supposed to be located in? So I can put it there if and when I find it.
3) Can I download the ADOBE color picker somewhere? The only one I want is Adobe's. Particularly for choosing spot colors.
I no longer have the original Photoshop discs for a re-install.
Thanks for any help.

The Photoshop color picker is built into Photoshop. There is no file, and no plugin for it.
The only way to get a different color picker (system or a picker plugin) is to choose another one in Photoshop's preferences.
But it sounds like you simply had the picker open on a previously connected display (and the OS is not so good about telling applications that the display is no longer available).

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