Applications  open, have menus, but no windows

officially the weirdest bug I've ever had on a mac... When my computer is on for a period of time, parts of iTunes stop working. The library window is just gone.... The little "iTunes is loading your library" appears when I quit and relaunch the application, then nothing. The equalizer wont even appear, even if it is indicated as being displayed. I have my menu bar, I can open it and quit apps with ease, but the window simply isn't there. I have the same issue with system preferences. No matter what I click, or ask it to display, no finder window ever appears and no system preferences ever display... I restart my computer, and everything is fine again (for a while) Weird thing is, new playlists will pop up once the app starts working again after the restart, so the system is responding to my commands, but it doesn't show me anything??? I can even hit play using the application menu in the dock, and whatever music I last had selected starts to play. No library, or any other window ever displays! And no, I did not just minimize the window and forget to check the dock. It is gone. Same for system preferences. The finder still works, and I can launch Word, iPhoto, whatever.
I am running Flip4Mac, 360 Connect, and MissingSync (i have not synced since leopard, as MarkSpace says its incompatible) as third party system preferences, and I use EyeTV 2.5 which has a lot of iTunes interaction.
I checked the last 3 days (14 pages) of leopard posts but have not seen this issue. Please help! Clean installs are exhausting, even though I have multiple partitions and a .mac account.

one more thing: I have front row enabler installed (dual 2GHZ G5) and it still works, displays artwork, etc...
I think it has something to do with the "finder stopped" working posts that I have seen so many of. I also had an issue where I could see my desktop, but no matter how many times i double clicked any of my hard drives, including iDisk, partitions, and external USB disks, no finder window ever appeared until I restarted....
I have had to restart 3-6 times per day for every day that I have ben using leopard.

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