Clicking inactive windows

Recently I have been having issues with clicking inactive windows. This seems to happen a lot especially when using Photoshop or other CS4 applications. I can see the inactive window, e.g. safari in the background but cannot click on the window. CS4 / other application remains active and the only way I can switch to the other application is clicking on the dock icon, using exposé or Cmd-Tab.
Has anyone else had these issues at all as it is seriously hampering my productivity and becoming increasingly frustrating.

Hi Jan,
Thank you for your reply. Indeed those timer values were not covered in the ISE design guide. We have implemented this timer to tweak the standard design. However we have finally discovered the solution for this issue.
"authentication timer inactivity 120" was the route cause of the issue. So when a workstation goes to idle, ISE tries to re-authenticate after 2 minutes because of this switch port configuration.
We have tried to expand the timer to 3600 and it worked, issue fixed. But you will have then every one hour the same result (not a big issue).
And yes, we have deleted all those timer values to keep the configuration simple as possible. Now we don't have the issue anymore.

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