FINAL CUT "HIDING" & NOT COMING BACK??

How come when my FCP "hides" it does not reappear. I can not save or anything, its very frustrating!! I have to force quit and then reopen my project whether it was saved or not! why does this happen?
i've had this happen intermittently before and i never knew the reason.
please help!
thx
seth shapiro

it ABSOLUTELY should not be happening and it is ABSOLUTELY a problem, but one of the things that WE could be doing here is to figure out if there are other similarities in our systems.
one of my observations over the years is to remember that in a computer system "everything effects everything"... so you may think that some 3rd party calendar utility "shouldn't" effect my Final Cut application not returning from being Hidden, but it may, you never know... (BTW... I have no idea if I should be using "effect" or "affect"... I'm not a writer)
I have the same problem on one of the machines I cut on...
it has a Kona LE and a bunch of OWC ram we got almost 2 years ago
we also use Magic Bullet Looks.... that app takes over the screen so maybe it has some voodoo to it...
those are things that are unique about that system because the Hiding problem does not come up on any other systems...
Ok... thats my 2 cents... anyone else have any thoughts?

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