Pictures in Preview Drawer...Where's the drawer???

Okay, this does it. Note to self: Buy Dummies book for operating system!
I use a lot of pictures and sort them using Preview...in the "drawer" mode, meaning that they appear in a thumbnail and I can scroll up and down to see all of the pictures.
All of a sudden, the drawer is missing and each picture opens separately. I certainly don't remember changing any preferences, etc. I did have to use Adobe Acrobat a couple times when a .pdf would not open properly in Preview. I read a couple earlier posts, so I ran Disk Utility, etc.
Can someone tell me how to get the "drawer" back. And this "Dummy" is hoping you know what I am talking about!
Geez....it's the little things in life that are so frustrating!
Thanks!
j

Hi Mickey560,
This is a bit after the fact, but I wanted to mention that this may have been a matter of just resetting the toolbar in your Preview app. I'm not sure why resetting the PRAM settings would correct the Preview drawer missing problem but it sounds more like your drawer was just hidden.
The settings held in PRAM are listed at:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238
so I'm not sure why that would have corrected the problem (?).
When you opened Preview was the "Toolbar" for Preview visible? Was the icon for the "drawer" visible in the toolbar if the toolbar was visible? If "this" was the problem all you needed to do was go to the "View" menu (in Preview app) and select "Customize Toolbar" selection. This would allow you to drag the "Drawer" icon back to the Toolbar. Or if the Toolbar was missing you just needed to select "Show Toolbar" in the View Menu.
Sorry if that was not your original problem but just wanted to let you know if the problem ever arises again.
All's well at this point, so I guess this is moot, but just in case for your future information....
good luck,
littleshoulders

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