Reset Color Window/Picker

I am having somet trouble accessing some of the interface options (color wheel, color sliders, color palettes, image palettes, crayons) in certain applications (Pages, Numbers, TextEdit). I believe this occured when I upgraded to Lion from Snow Leopard. In Snow Leopard, the Color WIndow/Picker had the clear oval/lozenge button that allowed the interface options to be hidden. In Lion, that button is gone and I am unable to unhide the interface options.

I have tried deleting "com.apple.iWork09.plist" and I still just have the Crayons, with no option to choose any other color picker.
You may have picked the wrong preference list because you made the wrong assumption. In your post you are making the assumption that the Colour Picker is part of Apple iWork.
If instead you were to assume that the Colour Picker is part of the operating system then you would want to try deleting NSColorPanelSwatches.plist.
Internally, the Colour Picker is a client of ColorSync and the swatches, if memory serves, are represented as ICC NMCL Named Colour profiles.
/hh

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