Hand icon on screen

Hi!
I have Windows XP on my computer. Today when I opened my Illustrator CS3, all I can get is this little hand icon. I cannot switch to another tool. I don't know if I happened to hit something accidentally, or if there is something wrong with the hand tool, but it will not go away - and I can't do anything else with the file. Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Donna

I've seen that many times in the past. The only way I found to solve it was to quit and restart Illustrator.

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