Photoshop CS 5 Workspace

At some point during my session, the workspace icons get greyed out and I unable to change workspaces. The entries under Window/Workspace are similiarly greyed out too. I'm bever sure what caused it to happen. What can I do to resiolve this ?
Thanks
Tonyu

Thanks Charles,
That was the answer. I'd love to know their though process was in coming up with that decision. Perhaps they assumed when a user was in full screen, a decision about workspace had been made and would not be altered.

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