DUEL ADAPTER and 10.5.3

Greetings have new MacBookPro and was using Duel Adapter for P2 offloads as intermittently as it would function. It's now dead with 10.5.3 and is there anyone anywhere who has any insight on how and why the driver for the Duel Adapter sice being integrated into OSX Leopard and been at best unreliable and at worse non-functional. Duel Systems is not offering any help because they say it's Apple's issue.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated by this P2 consultant.
Be well and Thanks!
Tom

I had the same thing happen while using InDesign CS3 with Spaces. The application was running, but I could not access it. I tired to Command-Tab to it. The application icon was visible, but when I selected it, nothing happened, menu bar still said Finder. I tried Double clicking on another InDesign file, and it acted like it was opening, but still no view of InDesign. I tried to restart my machine, and I got the error that InDesign would not let it restart. I finally had to force-quit InDesign using the Command-Option-Escape keys.
Something is not right here....

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