Menu bar no longer appears in full screen mode

For some reason today my menu bar no longer shows up when I move the mouse to the top of the screen in any application. I have tried restarting several times, opening and closing applications, taking apps in and out of full screen, ran disk utility. All to no avail.
Not sure if this is related, but I attached an external drive and booted to the recovery volume on my mac to install Lion on the external drive. It hung at the download so I quit and rebooted to my main drive. Everything worked normally except for the menu bar.
Software up to date, 2008 MacBook Pro with no attachments.
Any ideas?

After not using the computer for 30 minutes, the menu bar is now working again. Must be a bug...

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