Finder window not showing

After upgrading to Lion, I am no longer able to use cmd+Tab to go to the Finder windows. However, when I am shifting between spaces, I am able to see all the finder windows in the background. SImilarly, if I am using expose, I can see all the Finder windows, but am unable to click and navigate to them. Any thoughts? I am no Power user. So, pardon my ignorance.
Thanks in advance.

I have the same problem of invisible finder windows on a Mac Book Pro.
Shortly:
I cannot open any finder window (to access files and folders) in any way after a Mac Book reboot.
Tried by clicking a finder icon in a Dock
Tried by clicking a New Finder Window menu
Summary of other indicies of the problem
The problem of the invisible finder windows has appeared after an upgrade from Snow Leopard to Lion 10.7.2
The problem still persists in the same manner after an upgrade to the latest Lion 10.7.3
The finder window shortly shows up when sliding between "desktops" when using the "three finger scroll gesture", but it is not manipulable, and disappears when the screen settles on the next "desktop".
But Finder knows about all its open windows even though they are not not visible on a desktop. All windows are listed as an items inside the Finder Window menu. But clicking and of that window items has no effect ..... the related window still does not appear.
This problem appears after a reboot of the Mac Book ..... when the Mac Book is powered up and Mac OS X is freshly launched.
But ..... in the Dock ..... When I change the Option state ("All Desktops", "This Desktop", "None" values) in any way, all invisible finder windows suddenly appear. After that action opening and closing all other finder windows works well ..... until the next reboot of the Mac Book.
The problem appeares only within my Standard User login account (Czech language). It does not appear within an Admin User login account (English language). Opening and closing finder window works well within an Admin User login account from the beginning without any problem. I do not know, whether it is related to languages or not
I have performed Disk Permission Verifications several times, but without any effect.
I have also deleted the "~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist" file several time and also without any effect ..... I have been deleting from a Terminal of the Admin User login account when Standard User login account is logged off ..... and of course I have deleted the file related to the Standard User login account.
Thank you very much for some usefull hint.
With my best regards

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