What a bummer!! It is frustrating when things change on their own. I no longer have EQ7 on my machine but there should be a setting in preferences that allows you to move the tools from left to right and change the size. In EQ 8 it is File/Preferences/Display. Perhaps in opening the free file it changed your settings as if you had chosen to do so. There is also an option to "restore" back to all the orriginal settings in 8's Preferences as well. My guess is that EQ7 more than likely has similar settings. Anyways - glad you are up and running.