Thanks for all your help.

This same glitch happened to me again today (July 10, 2011, game time 6/23 11:00, leve "From the Sea to the Trees", Humblehearth, Archer rank 29, physical level 42), I tried the widget reset, and it didn't work. I had to kill a monster again for it to pop up. In the end the widget reset caused more of an issue because I've customized all my widget locations, and I lost leve time to reset everything.