Properties & tools are greyed out

Hi,
Whenever I open a new document in Flash CS5 Pro, the properties & tools panels are greyed out. Does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks in advance.
pjirles

new document "Action Script 3.0" or new document "Action Script File"
Action Script File is only code then all panel are disableds

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