That helped, but not so much of moving the drive buttons down, but it helped me realize that what it was doing was supposedly showing the drive buttons, but they were blank. I did not even have that box for "drive buttons" checked. So i did as you said, to click the box to place the drive letters on their own bar, and they did showing the correct icons. I declicked it, and now the top bars are not separated.
So I guess it left the space for the drive buttons, but did not show me the actual icons.