Preliminary dialogs in adjustment levels

I use Photioshop CS on a Mac G4 (PPC) with OS 10.4.11.
This is a very elementary question, I am afraid, but I nevertheless hope that someone will point me in the right direction.
If I choose Image/Adjustments/Levels, what I see straight away is the Levels dialog with its histogram and controls. But if I choose Layers/New adjustment layer/Levels, I first see a dialog as shown in my first example below.
If I then click on 'Color' it expands to my second example.below.
I have experimented with choosing different colours in the second drop-down menu, and cannot see any effects on what I do subsequently in the main Levels dialog or on the image I am editing. (A similar situation obtains if I select a Hue and Saturation adjustment layer.)
I have searched Photoshop Help and a large book on Photoshop that I have in my possession, but I cannot discover any explanations of these preliminary dialogs and what they are for. I should be most grateful for any advice.

Sounds like you are in CS5 not CS.
Look for the palette called adjustment, which should automatically pop up when creating adjsutment layers. If not window >> adjustment.

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