Shape style palette gone

something happened - maybe i hit some obscure keyboard shortcut, but the palette for shape styles and colour has disappeared from the toolbar at the top of my screen and i don't know how to get it back.
where drawing shapes used to create a new layer and an editable shape it now creates a black outline that can't be selected or editied in any way on whichever layer is active.
this is a massive problem. how can i make the shape tool behave like it's supposed to again?
thanks.
PS CS5 iMac OS Mavericks

It may be that in the tool options bar you have the shape tool set to draw paths instead of shape layers
(set it to shape layers before drawaing out a shape)

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