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SharePoint 2010 - WebParts not showing up?

Greetings, all!

I haven't had much experience with end-user SharePoint 2010 training, but I did have a question.

When I create a new page, say a "Team Site", within SharePoint 2010...
And go to "Edit Page"...
And under "Editing Tools", I select "Insert"...
And then click "Web Part"...

The only category of web part that shows up is the "Lists and Libraries" web part, which only shows me the lists and libraries that are created on this site (announcements, calendar, links, shared documents, etc).

I am trying to find out how to add a Content Editor Web Part, or some form of Rich Text web part (which in 2007 was part of what the CEWP had the capability to do).  

The problems stemmed from when I created an Enterprise Wiki site collection, and added an sub site as an Enterprise wiki.  The sub site has only one area to modify, which allows the typing of rich text and the inserting of web parts (which again, only come from the "Lists and Libraries" category).  

However, If i change the layout of the site to include more than one web part zone (using Edit Page > Page tab > Page Layout > Blank Web Part Page), there is no place to type text...the web part zones have "Add A Web Part", yet the only web parts that show up are the ones within the "Lists and Libraries" category.

Anyone know what's going on here?
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content editor webpart in sharepoint 2010

media and content -> content editor.
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This is not correct.  I am experiencing the same problem but when I look the features mentioned are enabled.
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dwpmartin...

Just because something does not work for you does not mean that it is not correct.  

This worked for me at the time that I posted my question.

I have however, a few weeks ago, encountered the issue again.  And in this case, both features were enabled and running on that site collection, yet "Lists and Libraries" was the only available option choice for Web Parts.

If I were you, I'd open up a question, referencing this one, stating that this does not work for you and request further troubleshooting ideas.

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TSG
If you give the user account the abilitly at the site collection level then the webparts show up in the site.  
Can you elaborate?  Give the user account (I guess in my case, the SP administrator account) what ability at the site collection?  "Site Collection Administrator"?  "Owner"?  Set "Full Control" on the site for just the specific user account?

None of that worked for me, which was why I originally created this Question.
No.  If you have a user (jdoe) and you have given him owner rights to the site he cannot add all the webparts until he is an owner at the parent (site collection) .  I was able to reproduce this.
That's interesting, because I was unable to get it to work that way.  I was signed in to my account, which is a Site Collection Administrator in Central Administration for that Site Collection, and the sub site was inheriting permissions from the site collection.  After it didn't work, I also went in and broke permissions so that the sub site had it's own unique permissions, with my account in the owner's group, and still didn't have a workaround.

It's interesting because I WAS able to reproduce the issue with the features.
I would say this is a bug and the security is not working as one would expect.  I would personally like to see security around web parts (granular) so that I can control what users create.