no mercs
 

I recently did the update (today) and I now have no mercs in my drop down window and no way to see them. how can I get this back the way it was before I updated or is there a fix for this

There's no longer a drop-down for mercs. As of ToV there's a list of mercs you've hired grouped by which ones you can hire directly and which you have to visit to hire. You can toggle the merc pane in the character window between the current merc's appearance and that list. Make sure you don't have the character window (eq2ui_mainhud_persona.xml) ignored. Versions of the character window from before ToV's release will not display merc information.