Extreme rare bug: properties windows doesn't appear - have to kill flash w. task-manager

Right now I had this bug for the first time (after having worked with Flash for about 2 months now):
I double-clicked on a bitmap-item in the library and instead of opening the properties-windows where you can change compression, import and so on, the focus changed to a random explorer window and flash got "locked". Flash probably thought that it actually opened a new sub-window and waited for it being closed, but there was no such window! Seems like the open-procedure failed and the next window to focus on was just an explorer window. Closing this one didn't get the focus back to flash. What a luck, I could still save the file using ctrl-s but couldn't get back to the application. So I had to kill Flash with the task-manager.
Anyone else had this bug? Would be good if Flash checks internally if the window creation succeeded before focusing on it, this is what I suspect has gone wrong - as a programmer.

If you are using CS4, update to 10.0.2 found here: http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/downloads.html
If not or you are not using CS4, you may just need to reinstall.

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