SCAYT options broken?

this is really bizarre. the scayt drop down options don't work for me. if i click on options, the dialog comes up but it's empty. same thing for all the drop down options, except the toggle. the problem, as i traced, goes to line 221 of ckeditor/plugins/scayt/dialogs/options where it says doc.getById( button ) which returns null. one of the values for the button variable is 'dic_create', which is the id for a field on line 110, so why can't it find it???

thanks!