Thanks for the advice, but i have tried switching between wire frame, hidden, and shaded; so i know it is not that simple. ( I wish it was)
All the layers are set to be solid. The weird thing is that i can go to a 3d view that was previously saved with shaded internal engine settings and it displays ok, but i cannot create a new view. My work around at this point is to open an old 3d view and move the camera and save the view. But it seams at this point that it is just a bug in the file.
Thanks for the help guys.