Missing sidebar/sidebar will not open, finder issues

Hi, i no longer have sidebars on my finder windows, and clicking the button in upper right corner just toggles the toolbar, does not bring up sidebar. I trashed the Finder and sidebar .plists for this user, repaired permissions... no change. Very occasionally the sidebar appears out of nowhere on one window, then won't open on the next. I am noticing other Finder strangeness, such as the battery indicator always says "calculating", and i'm having trouble opening any .dmgs (Stuffit also hangs when it tries to open anything), and response is very sluggish. This doesn't seem to be occurring in the other user on the iBook. Given that i've already trashed the Finder and Sidebar prefs for this user, twice, with no result, what can i try now?

Yes, thanks, i just discovered i can drag it back out from the separator dimple. But i hadn't reduced it, and new windows are still sometimes randomly showing up without one, without me doing anything.
Now the Finder suddenly hung completely and i had to command-key restart. Seems to be working fine in the other user account. Unfortunately the user account in which i have the problem is the one i use all day!
These issues seemed to start when newly-installed Stuffit 11 hung and had to be force-quit while expanding something (yeah, i tried trashing its prefs too).

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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1421
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I am using version 3.6.10. Windows 7.
But I have had this problem for years.
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Have the same result in XP, also in a clean installation.
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TS1717 Started a software update this morning which didn't work. Now Itunes will not open at all. I get the following message."The program can't state becasue MSVCR80.dll is missing from your computer."

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There are a couple of options that I know of to fix the issue.
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I updated the numbers APP on my iPad to 2.1(1129) and my Macbook numbers 2.1(436) will not open the project. The error is "index.html is missing".
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This happened to me today as well post installing the latest version of itunes. I did a search on google for the error and came across a recommendation to :
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Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Then try the action that you're having trouble with again. Select any messages that appear in the Console window. Copy them to the Clipboard (command-C). Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
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Report will not open due to an invalid printer issue.

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CA Forum: General
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Post Author: mario
CA Forum: General
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