Taskbar sucks.

Hey everyone, I left my computer all by it's lonesome for the last few days for thanksgiving stuff and here I get back to find that Windows has decided that my taskbar needs to NOT show my programs, so I only have quicklaunch on it, great.

It's happened before and I had to reinstall Windows (>_<) and I reaaaally don't want to do that again right now, SO, anyone got a fix for this?

Thanks for any help in advance.