Stacks configuration

Just discovered what the problem is. It turns out that the type of view i was talking about was the Fan content view, which only appears if you use your dock on the bottom. In my case i was using the dock on the right side. Thanks for all the answers.

From you comment on RCIX's solution it sounds like you simply have too many items in your stack. After something like ten items the files will only display in grid form. Otherwise the line of files would go right off the screen!