No Colors in Swatches

So I had to reinstall CS4 and now when I open the swatch panel in illustrator there aren't any colors. I try to add libraries and it won't let me do anything except for add individual swatches. How do I restore the default color swatch selections? Anyone have any ideas?

Try manually opening the file in the location below which has the same name as the document profile you chosoe on new doucments. That file may be dmaaged, or you may have permissiosn problems whch need to be fixed. On the mac run application/utilities/disk utility and choose repair prefs
NEW DOCUMENT PROFILES
HD\Users\(user name)\Library\Application Support\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS#\en_US\New Document Profiles

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hey i m working on my illustrator and i m having many problems with my swatches
for example i use the green phosphorique i don't get this color i get another green
and many colors too it's like illustrator chooses for you the only green color
so please i kind of need help i can show you pictures of that i print screen viewed them.. so anybody who can help... pleaaaaaaaaaase contact me because i m having a project now..
my e mail is [email protected] i would be thankful
i even tried to download the illustrator on my friend's computer also i m having this problem ....

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Hello,
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#target illustrator
var docRef = app.activeDocument;
with (docRef) {
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Sure,
#1
#target illustrator
var docRef = app.activeDocument;
with (docRef) {
var replaceColor = swatches.getByName('Pantone 152C').color;
for (var i = 0; i < pathItems.length; i++) {
with (pathItems[i]) {
if (filled == true && fillColor instanceof SpotColor) {
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with (stories[j]) {
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#2
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I'm working in Freehand 11 and I would like to add a web
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darrel wrote:
>> I'm working in Freehand 11 and I would like to add a
web color (#b0d3d7)
>> to my
>> swatches palette. When I add it as an RGB color, it
is slightly off. And
>> if I
>> go to the paint bucket color in my tools palette, it
won't allow me to
>> type in
>> the 6-digit web color. Is there something I'm
missing? It seems like it
>> would
>> be pretty simple.
>
> #b0d3d7 is just RGB values written in hex code. You just
need to translate
> that into RGB values and input that into Freehand.
>
> Google should turn up a number of translators for your.
Here's one:
>
>
http://www.javascripter.net/faq/hextorgb.htm
>
> -Darrel
>
>

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I'll try again with a little more detail.
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