Help! White balance dropper/loupe disappears!

I was just going through a wedding to do a last run for white balance and color corrections and my white balance loupe appears and disappears in a split second!
Previously, I was making several WB corrections to a specific image, decided I wasn't getting anywhere and wanted to see the (M)aster image. From the master image I clicked on the WB dropped tool and it flipped back to my "version" of the file and now it just disappears every time!
Any ideas??
Aaron Lee
Dual 1.8GHz G5 2GB Mac OS X (10.4.3)

grumbles no, I've been up for 65 days now! Why would I want to reboot? Well, okay, I'll d/l 10.4.4 and the works :-/
Aaron

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