PSE 8 Layers and Effects

Hi All my first post here, I came across this forum whikst googling for a solution.....
I run Windows 7 and have PSE 8 - last night I was playing with layers and effects in PSE 8 and I clicked on the small blue box with FX written in the corner of the effects window. A drop down appeared with various options and I clicked 'show all' icons approx 280 of them , now I can't get back to how it used to be [only showing 4 icons that I use reguallry] as the drop down doesn't work any more. I assume this is because there is nothing else to see so how do I get it back to how it was?
Not sure if this is connected or not but I also have lost the sliders in the layers pallet. I can make new layers but have nothing to edit them with.
Any help much appreicated before I go bald!!!

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I see them in the precomp but not in the main time.
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:11:50 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Noob Question - PreComp Layers and Effects
Do you see them when you clic on the "continuosly rasterize" button of your precom. it's the little "*" icon of your precomposition.
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Again with the Continuously Rasterize of 3D Shape Layers and Effects Problem in CS3

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>So, really could be a way that allow me to apply this effects to a
>continuously rasterized layer (or Pre-com) and it works as well as if
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mastabeta wrote:
> I have images of a cube that are different colors, but
same dimensions. I
> import one by one onto my stage in Flash CS3 and then
apply some alpha lighting
> and glow effects. There has got to be a more efficient
way to do apply the same
> effects over and over instead of how I'm doing it now
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> layers to different canvases...
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> thanks
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