Photoshop CS5 - when using free transform, "width" is showing pixels and not %?

Hi guys, I'm not sure if this is in the right section but...
I am using Photoshop CS5 on the most up-to-date version of Leopard. Macbook Pro 15", early 2011 model.
I went Edit > Free Transform, about to adjust the width/height of an object on the canvas like I normally do, but I noticed that the width/height info near the top of the screen is really... Weird. Instead of saying W (width) 100% and H (height) 100% in the two boxes, W is saying however many pixels the object is, instead of the scale percentage.
How do I change this back to percentage?
Thanks.

I skipped CS5 and went from CS3 to CS6 - this is the standard Free Transform menu in CS6:
You're likely to get a quicker answer to your question if you post in the Photoshop users forum - http://forums.adobe.com/community/photoshop - where there are a number of people still using older versions.
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