Turning on thumbnails in layers palette

I accidently turned off thumbnails in the layer palette and now have graphics only. How do I get my thumbnails back?
Don

Thanks for your help again, John! I right-clicked on the palette a few times but the key is to click where the thumbnail should be in order to get the thumbnail size option.
Don

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http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/409/kb409112.html

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Greetings -
Thanks for your response (below) which caused me to do some
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Turning on thumbnails in layers palette

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