Font drop down menu won't stay open in Photoshop Elements 8

I have Photoshop Elements 8. Up until today it worked just fine. I have been trying to change the font type using the drop down menu of course. Every time I click on the drop down menu it tries to open, but will not stay open to make the change. The menu just flickers in the attempt to open it up.
I have reset the tool, deleted any preferences at start up using the Ctrl+Alt+sSiht keys and no help.
I am using a Windows 7 64bit system. Like I said, this hasn’t happen before. Now that I think about it, sometimes when a menu box is open it will disappear behind the main window and I need to find it again by toggling the window, this will make the change menu to reappear. But still no font drop down menu.
Anybody have any help?

If photodrawken's suggestion doesn't make any difference, which was my first thought on the problem, here are a couple of other suggestions.
You might have a bad font. Have you installed any fonts or programs that might have put in new fonts recently?
In pse 8 under Edit>Preferences>Type uncheck Font Preview Size and see if that makes a difference.
Also this lists a fix for missing scroll bars in pse 8 and even though that's not your exact problem it would be worth a try:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/865/cpsid_86508.html
Added:
Do you have any third party plugins installed for pse8?
MTSTUNER
Message was edited by: MTSTUNER

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