True Launch Toolbar is empty

Um... I don't know how to say this, guys, but I think my empty toolbar is actually NOT the True Launch Bar. Here's what happened: I had my language toolbar missing for some time now, so I decided to restore it through the Control Panel. After doing so I've tried to turn it on and... nothing. Absolutely no change on the Windows taksbar. Then I switched it off and turned the TLB on, and the language toolbar showed up. So the empty toolbar is (and was the whole time) actually the language toolbar. I know, this doesn't make any sense, but it definitely means that I've actually never had TLB working at all. It was the language toolbar all along. I think this puts the whole problem into another percpective. I guess I don't have to tell you how confused I am now. I feel really dumb and of course I'm open to any thoughts or suggestions at this point.