There's a long standing bug in Magento that means the pull down menus may not work in admin.
There are two methods to fix this. We generally find that setting the permissions works.
1) Make sure your file permissions are correct.
You can reset permissions with the following commands via SSH
find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
chmod +x pear
2) edit...
/app/code/core/Mage/Page/Block/Html/Head.php
At around line 104 the code looks like this.
switch ($item['type']) {
case 'js':
#$lines[$if]['other'][] = sprintf($script, $baseJs.$item['name'], $item['params']);
$lines[$if]['script'][] = $item['name'];
Change it to the following by moving the # symbol to comment out the alternative line
switch ($item['type']) {
case 'js':
$lines[$if]['other'][] = sprintf($script, $baseJs.$item['name'], $item['params']);
#$lines[$if]['script'][] = $item['name'];
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