Problems using the brush tool

Hi everyone,
I am using illustrator cs5 and am running into an issue using the paint brush tool. Whenever I try to use it I get the circel with the line through it teling me it cant be used. I checked all of my layers and non of them are locked and I have a layer highlighted in the layers menu. Everything looks right. I have been able to draw with the pen on any layer I want but the brush just wont seem to work. Does any one know why? I am sure it is something simple.

Even if no brush is selected if you select brush tool it will default to the first brush in panel.
you most likely have no brushes (and prob no styles) in the relevent panels either deleted or something else. Load brushes 9press F5 and in the flyout menu open brush librry, drag a few to the brushes panel...
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