When clicking on the Finder icon in the dock the Main Menu grays out ... what's wrong ... how do I fix?

Product: iMac, OS X 10.9.5 (13F34)
Processor: 3.5 GHz Intel Core i7
Memory: 32 GB 160 MHz DDr3
Storage: 3.12 TB Fusion Drive
PROBLEMS:
1. When clicking on the Finder icon in the dock, the main menu grays out and the window with documents, applications etc., does not pop up.
2. iMac is not showing up in iCloud.com and, not syncing with my MacBook Pro, iPad Mini and iPhone.
This situation seemed to appear after doing updates on my iMac.
TROUBLESHOOTING I'VE TRIED:
1. rebooted,
2. repaired permissions,
3. booted in safe-mode and let the basic tests run then rebooted to normal mode. Afterwards, the problem seemed to be corrected, however, it re-appeared shortly thereafter and still exists.

Go to the Finder's General preference pane and reset the New Finder windows show: option.  Try changing it to some other folder, try it and then back again.
If that doesn't jump start it try moving the com.apple.finder.plist file from your Home/Library/Preferences folder to the Desktop, reboot and then reset the Finder preferences.
For Mavericks and Yosemite go to your Home folder and use the View ➙ Show View Options menu to bring the this window:

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