Shortcuts in the BI launch pad Home tab missing

Hi everybody,

Its all of a sudden that all the shortcuts to "My Applications" and "My Recently Viewed Documents" on the HOME tab of the BI Launch Pad have disappeared.

Please refer to the screen shot attached.

I initially presumed that it was a problem with Jave Runtime, but apparently there is no change or update with it. Java Runtime 1.6.0_22 runs on my machine. I tried running the BI Launch Pad on other machines with version 1.6.0_19 and 23 too. The behavior is the same.

Environment details:

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 SP02

Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard

Would be very grateful for any pointers.

Cheers!

Rahul