Retina display wakes in high resolution / breaks Displays panel

Hi all,
Yesterday I used my new retina MBP with an Apple TV, mirroring its screen up on the AppleTV for a presentation. Since then, whenever I wake the MBP (I have its Energy Saver settings set to sleep the display but not the computer after a time), it wakes in super high res with tiny tiny tiny text (this may be 2880 x 1800 but I can't tell, but it's higher res than the highest setting the Display panel offers you).
Then, because I want to reset it to something readable, I open the Displays panel, and click Best for Retina or such, and it doesn't change. None of the resolution settings do anything. The Display panel is not entirely broken, because the GUI functions, as in, highlighting different options I choose, but there's no reaction.
To fix it, I've found I can go into the menu bar icon (rectangle with triangle under it, the AirPlay icon), set the MBP to Airplay mirror to itself (which strikes me as an odd option to have available). This changes the screen to something pretty low res with letterboxing at top and bottom, and asks me for a Airplay password for my own system. I say Cancel, and then my Displays panel works again, and I can select Best for Retina.
Any tips? Seems like a bug.
sg

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