Timeline & Canvas gone

I've been working on a 90 minute video, near the end. I was working on the iBook and needed to see the desktop, clicked on the red X and closed the canvas and timeline windows. I cannot reopen them. The drop-down menu has those two windows greyed out, command-2 or command-3 doesn't open them. Suggestions, please. And yes, I know I'm crazy for installing FCP on my iBook, but I use it at home when I can't get to the big monster. It hasn't given me trouble (except time) on smaller projects.
TIA

To clarify what worldwidestudios suggested, double-click the Sequence in the Browser window. That will reopen the Canvas and Timeline windows.
Next time you want to see the desktop, instead of closing a window in FCP, go to the main Final Cut Pro menu at the top of the screen and select "Hide Final Cut Pro" or hit Command h To bring it back up, simply click on the FCP icon in the Dock.
-DH

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