Re: Photoshop elements 9. Help please!

I have a page cover I'm trying to design. Started it a few weeks ago maybe.
1. How can I get all the layers to show in the edit column so I can alter them?
2. Why don't they unlock if you press the lock, or anything else for that matter! ?
3. I even tried to start over again out of frustration but the new page shows up checkered. How do I get a blank white page?
Thank you! I wish whoever developed this made it more coherent and user friendly! It's so darn frustrating, you get to hate it and regret ever buying it. It's like the developer was not only a foreigner but from a different planet - someone who didn't understand the human brain or how to make something user friendly.
Sorry for my rant. It's just so frustrating trying to get anything at all done without an Elements 9 advanced degree or phd. It's just not user friendly! And by all means something as UN user-friendly as this should come with a manual.
Thank you so much for your help!

I split this into a new thread since it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the editor busy error.
1. If there are layers they will show in the layers panel. If you saved in a format that doesn't allow you to have layers, like jpg, you don't have any layers anymore, which is why you can't see them. Likewise, if you merged or flattened your layers, they're history.
2. The lock doesn't work the kind of magic you want. (It would be nice.) The lock merely prevents certain kinds of edits from happening to the layer in question. It doesn't mean that many layers are locked into one.
3. Checkerboard means transparent, so that area is blank when you put on another image. It doeoesn't mean you have a checkered background. If you want a solid white background, use the pulldown menu to choose that:

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