Logic - Must Force Quit After Hiding

I've encountered a strange but incredibly annoying problem with Logic Pro 8.0.2 and Leopard on my new (Early 2008) Mac Pro 2.8 8-core. When I'm working on a song, I frequently hide Logic to the dock when I edit an audio sample in Peak or Recycle; or even just to take a break and check email. I did this all the time with my G5 and Tiger. Now, whenever I hide Logic to the dock and try to bring it back up, it seems to have crashed - no error message window, but eventually the contextual window that comes up when right clicking on the icon in the dock says "not responding" and I have to force quit, usually multiple times before it really quits, then go through the slow process of reopening Logic or sometimes restarting the Mac. Logic is the only program that does this, and it's a major workflow/creativity killer. Has anyone encountered this or does anyone know what could be causing it? I do regular Unix maintenance, so I doubt that permissions are the problem. Between this and firewire problems (see my other post), I'm ready to downgrade back to my old G5.

I'm really sorry in advance to the OP, mods, and other poor souls that have to read this thread and this post. But this nonsense must be stopped......
(be sure to have at least 100GB of free space in the System HDD
this is a Leopard requirement!!)
....expecially when Hiding an Application such as Logic... this require a great ammount of Virtual Memory Size...
if you don't have at least 100GB free in your disk... this behaviour should be happen!
Fer, this is getting ridiculous! Every time I see a post of yours you increase the gb requirement for running Logic, Leopard, Virtual Memory, etc. You have got to stop giving poor confused Logic users false information.
100gb free??? A LEOPARD REQUIREMENT???? The Mac Mini, THAT COMES WITH LEOPARD, comes with an 80gb hard drive! And several models come with a 120gb HD. To say that Leopard requires 100gb free is absolutely positively FALSE. And to say that if you don't have 100gb free on your HD, then doing a simple action like HIDING AND APPLICATION should cause it to freeze might be one of the most ridiculous statement I've ever seen on this forum.
I appreciate your enthusiasm on this forum, but you have got to stop giving false information. I ran Logic and Leopard for several months on my MBP with a 120gb HD, with between 15 and 20gb of free space, AND IT RAN JUST FINE. Virtual Memory was fine, hiding applications, including Logic, was fine, EVERYTHING FUNCTIONED AS NORMAL. Please post useful information and stop posting this nonsense.
If you, or anyone else, has real tangible information to back up your claims, please post, and I'll happily retract my statements. Until then, stick to the facts man!

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