Why does my color swatches disappear randomly?

I have a MAC and use CS4.
Sometimes when I use illustrator my color swatches are there and easy to access, change colors or values....blahlblahblah
Other times I have no color swatches in my color window, and no slider bars in the color slider window (No values can be adjusteded/ no bars to adjust)
Only if I use the drop bar on the color box(top right) and change to CYMK or RGB, can I change the color.
This is a bit annoying seeing that I cant figure it out why this happens.
I would show you guys a screen shot, but like i said it only happens randomly.......

This is great - but then how do you get the swatches back? I had a photo in the page and am now creating regular vector boxes but can't find a way to display the swatches! I've tried the pull down, tried show color swatches, show all swatches - but nothing happens no matter what i do.
Many thanks for your help!

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