Thank you, Filark, for your warm welcome and response.
I'm not sure how I would check my stylus either. I only have one PE. Though now that I think about it...I wonder if testing it on a Nintendo DS screen would work. I wonder this because, I have to find my stylus, having lost it the other day, and have resorted to using one of my daughter's retractable pen type ds stylus. It seems to work well on the tablet side. I actually like it better than the stylus this came with since it is as fat as a lot of pens and makes gripping it easier. Still not sure how anything would be wrong with the original stylus though, isn't only a piece of plastic?
I never changed the ink color, though that was a good thought, even when I first received my PE and played with the journal part doodling just to see how well it worked. But even had I accidentally changed the color to white, would it make trying to select the on screen icons impossible? I only ask because, nothing works on the screen. I used to be able to touch (with the original stylus) all of the icons and they responded accordingly. Now nothing happens. I can't even close out previous books or journals I have opened.
And I have to thank you for your correcting me about that button. I assumed it was like the tablet side, and it rotated the screen as well. Now I know, and having said new acquired knowledge, I tested it. Yes, the button does do as you said it would, switching between an open book and journal.
Uuuug...I'm probably going to have to just start fresh huh? I have so much stuff on here, oh well I have everything basically saved in a backup folder on my comp anyway. It's just such a loooooong process redoing everything.
Thanks for trying to help me though.