Final Cut Pro timeline items vanish

Put simply, anything placed into the timeline soon goes invisible so that anything beneath, such as the desktop, becomes visible and if I click on what should be a video clip, I'm actually clicking on whatever's beneath Final Cut Pro, which then gets selected instead. Basically like a cookie cutter effect.
Click here http://www.flickr.com/photos/46227266@N00/460849229/ to see what I mean
I reinstalled Final Cut Studio, assuming whatever had gone wrong would be fixed, but it hasn't.
Does anyone know what I can do to fix this? Any suggestions are welcomed, as I need to use Final Cut Pro quite urgently.

Turned out it was ShapeShifter messing with my display settings. I'd forgotten I even had it. Once it was disabled, everything worked properly again.

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Look at http://www.flickr.com/photos/46227266@N00/460849229/ to see what I'm talking about.
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Anybody know if there's a way to export a Quick Time REFERENCE file (not a full Quick Time .mov)?
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