Menu Bar Refresh Failure

When I'm switching applications (say from iTunes to iMovie) by clicking on the iMovie window, sometimes the menu bar fails to update to reflect the iMovie application (now the frontmost app). The menu bar remains iTunes. I am in the app and can control everything, but the menu bar doesn't work on the left side (like it's frozen, but no beach ball). To remedy this seemingly random issue, I simply switch to another app (like the Finder) and then switch back to iMovie and the menu bar refreshes and works fine. What could be wrong?

After 20 years of Macs I switched from TIGER to Leopard this weekend and am having a similar problem-- actually my menu bar seems to "freeze" and sometimes going to the FINDER then back to a program (like Safari or iCal-whatever) still doesn't work.
I've tried eliminating all my shareware / add-ins -- but it just did it again, and only thing running was FINDER, DragThing and iCal. I come back to the computer after it has sat idle 5-10 minutes, click on the WINDOW item in the menu bar and nothing-- no reaction -- worked fine 10 minutes before; 10 minutes later-- zip.
This will drive me insane-- it will drive me back to TIGER if this continues-- can I re-install TIGER over LEOPARD? I don't want to-- I spent hours getting set for this move (months!) -- but can't live like this.
Steve
2 March 2009

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