Disappearing pulldown menus and more

This problem has happened before with CS6 but it popped up again this week during a very simple edit....and it's making me nuts. For example, I was working on a short 5-minute video with a series of short clips (XDCAM EX originally) strung together with simple titles and some Gaussian blurs dropped onto short title card clips. After a few minutes of "normal" response from my Mac Pro (3,1 Dual QuadCore, 16 GB RAM), the program will stop responding to keyboard commands such as Play and Stop via the Spacebar. If I happen to go up to the Menu Bar and click on one of the pulldown Menu items, the pulldown will only be visible as long as I keep the mouse key depressed. When I release the button, the Menu disappears. Here's a short video showing this happening:
Any ideas as to why this is happening?

You waited 3 months before bumping!
I have never heard of it before.
Does it only happen in Premiere?
didyou try a reinstall?
Did youtry deeting your preferences?
Did you try updating your Drivers?
What O.S vers is it ? Does it need an update?

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