Navigation Pane and Topic Pane

I am new to RoboHelp. I just did a tutorial and feel like I
understood it. I completed my own project, and it worked fine.
However, the project I need to work on was begun by someone else at
the company I work for, and when I access her project via RoboHelp
XML, it is missing the Project Manager, TOC, Index, etc. in the
Navigation Pane on the left side, and the Topics Pane on the right
side only has Wysiwyg and True Code (missing Links and Topics).
When I go up to Tools and choose Pane, I get three options (Tools,
TrueCode, and Wysiwyg), and the options I desire aren't there.
Since the tutorial taught me how to use RoboHelp using those
missing items, I am lost without them. I am hopeful that someone
can talk me through getting those back to my screen. Thanks.

Peter:
Left-hand view was checkmarked. When I uncheckmarked it, the
Wysiwyg Editor expanded across the screen, filling it left to
right, and I entirely lost the pane on the left-hand side which had
the Tools Tab. So, I put the checkmark back in.
I do not have the same hard drive as she had. I had to ask
the IT guys here to install RoboHelp. I would not have the same
user logon as she had. Would that make a difference? The tutorial I
did did not address version control (it's more advanced than I am).
If she had used this feature, would that explain those missing
items? What about some kind of password protection?
I tried moving the project to My Computer, but that didn't
help. The woman I am replacing had stored this project in Visual
Source Safe as well as on her Shared drive here at the company. I
can access them "regularly" (meaning not via RoboHelp) in either
place. I can access the ones on her Shared drive via RoboHelp, but
that's when I get the version without Project Manager, TOC, Index,
Topics List, Links, etc. When I try accessing the version that's in
Visual Source Safe, I can't get in.
I really appreciating that you are helping me!!!

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