Cannot select a clip, or title Final Cut Pro X

I've been working with FCP X for a week or so now and am starting to get used to the format. However, recently it just decides to select (yellow box) a clip at random in my storyline and I cannot get off of the selection. No matter how hard I try to click on another clip, outside the clip, hit other buttons everything it hangs on that one clip. After all of this tying to get it unstuck, it might jump to another clip--never the one I want to work on and then stay there.
Sometimes I can free it up by cycling through command plus and minus. Actually, I think using command plus or minus may even cause the problem.
I have tried quitting FCP and restarting and even shutting off the computer and restarting to see if I then can select a clip. That doesn't help either.
VERY frustrating

I hope you found a way around this. It's unusual not to get any replies at all.
Have you tried trashing your preferences?
Faults like this can often be fixed by clearing out FCP X's preferences (for some reason, they get knotted up from time to time).
Download Digital Rebellion's Preference Manager (free, simple to use, and quite safe).
http://www.digitalrebellion.com/prefman/
With Pref Manager, you can backup the Prefs first, then if trashing makes no difference, you can restore all your settings.
If you trash them and don't restore them, you will need to go over your FCP X settings again, so it's a great idea to backup Preferences from time to time when FCP X is working well, then you can ditch the bad prefs and restore from your (Digital Rebellion) backup.
It's worth a try.
Andy

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