Sorry about that line Pumeco. And sorry for the long delay in replying, I never got an email letting me know someone posted. :-(

Thanks Helos, I have since figured out the Panel issue, and apologies for my terminology not being accurate. I figured it out by doing what you said and using a panel template from the Manga Materials folder.  I used to use Gimp once in awhile, but only to edit pictures, etc...never really got into using the drawing tools or layers much. So there is much of this that is still very new to me, working on it. ;-)

I still haven't figured out why my Rectangle Selection tool has been replaced by Rectangle Marquee. If you look at Teyon's post in the previous page (link below), he posted a screenshot of the selection tools, and that is exactly how mine looked at first. Once I began using it I must have hit a keyboard shortcut by mistake or something and now my selection tools say "marquee" instead of just "selection". I never did any re-naming or anything like that, it just happened.
https://market.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/?thread_id=2889546&page_number=4

You can see what I mean in my screengrab (below)  where mine says "marquee".(Rectangle Marquee, Ellipse Marquee, Lasso Marquee, Polyline Marquee, etc....) as opposed to (Rectangle Selection, Ellipse Selection, Lasso Selection, Polyline Selection), as mine used to be, and as Teyon's is in his screengrab.

When using one of the Marquee tools to select an object, it will have a row of icons at the bottom when you select an object (you can see that in my screengrab also), whereas the "regular" Selection tools like the ones in Teyon's screengrab did not have the icons when I used one of them to select an object, it only showed the dashed line around the selected object. There must be a way to change it back to regular Selection tools, no? I haven't found anything in the manual or anywhere else for that matter. Has to be a simple solution I would think.