Can't quit Photoshop and most tools are grayed out too!

Pretty much everytime I am working on a document in Photoshop, something happens and
most of the tools get grayed out, including Quit. I have to force quit to get out of it and reopen to do more changes.
Any suggestions?

Still can't figure this out... It's getting embarrasing in front of clients.
I"m running version 11.0.2 on OSx 10.6.4.
HELP!!!!!

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