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.

>>1
Be sure you don't have other folders in your taskbar or anything... Drag the Quick Launch and everything else out of your taskbar, and make it larger.

>>2
Doesn't work :\ if I take off all the toolbars all I end up getting is a silver bar at the bottom of the screen that can't be modified in any way (tried making it larger, moving it to the side of the screen, etc.).

Anyone else can help me out?

Alright :D I found a script that finally helped, here's a link to it:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/xp_taskbar_desktop_fixall.vbs

Looks like it just restores your taskbar to factory settings or something. Anyway, if anyone ever has the same problem as I did, that'll fix it up in a jiffy.