Application switching disabled in OS X Lion

I installed OSX Lion and now application switching (command + tab) does not work. How do I enable it?

Well now it's up. But it's buggy. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. It seems to be related to full screen apps. When I have terminal set to full screen as an example sometimes (not always) application switching will turn off.

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Hey guys,
I have a MacBook Pro15 inch Core2Duo 2.66GHz running Mac OS X 10.7.2.
When my Mac woke up from sleep, sometime the Application Switcher doesn't show the iconc properly like this.
Other time, it shows the dark icon.
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like attached image
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