Tool Palette Problem

When I click on tools in my tools palette the other tools (hidden under it) do not flyout so I can select them. Very strange. Any help would be appreciated.
Paul W.

Do you mean click-and-hold or just click?
Anyway you might just use the single-key Shortcuts to select secondary Tools (either hit the letter repeatedly or shift-letter, if Preferences – General – Use Shift Key for Tool Switch is checked).
Boilerplate-text:
As with all unexplainable Photoshop-problems You might try trashing the prefs (after making sure all customized presets like Actions, Patterns, Brushes etc. have been saved and making a note of the Preferences You’ve changed) by pressing command-alt-shift on starting the program or starting from a new user-account.
System Maintenance (repairing permissions, purging PRAM, running cron-scripts, cleaning caches, etc.) might also be beneficial, Onyx has been recommended for such tasks.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/onyx.html
Weeding out bad fonts never seems to be a bad idea, either. (Validate your fonts in Font Book and remove the bad ones.)

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ukliz wrote:
> Hi
> New to Director, problem is I have lost the Tool palette
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>
> Help Please
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