Swatch palette extends off screen

This afternoon, I opened a Pantone swatch palette, and when I clicked the resize handle, a glitch in my Apple mouse made the cursor jump down off the bottom of the screen, taking the bounding box for the palette with it. I can't scroll, or reach the resize handle, which is now below the confines of the screen. The box will not move higher than the Apple task bar, and there seems no way to fix the box back to its original size.
Restarting the program did not work, and restarting the computer did not solve the problem either. The box remains "hyperextended."
Does anyone have tips or advice on restoring the palette size to its original settings?

Reset the AI preferences hold the command Option Shift key down while launching Illustrator or
1. Quit Illustrator.
2.Go to User/username/Library/Preferences/ Adobe illustrator CS4 Settings and trash the settings folder, the whole folder not just the contents of the folder..
3. Start Illustrator. Illustrator creates a new preferences file.

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