Palettes Disappearing in CS2 on Windows 7

I switched my Photoshop CS2 over to an new computer running Windows 7. Now when I click off of the document I'm working on, to another document within photoshop my palettes disappear. I can go to the window menu and click on the palette I need open and it will open fine, but as soon as I click to a different document they disappear again. In the window menu there is a dash in place of the check mark next to the palettes that should be open. This is very frustrating. Any ideas why this would be happening?
Thanks

Since none of us seem to be able to reproduce what you're seeing, it's impossible to say whether a reinstall would help.
It almost appears as though Photoshop has become convinced that something unseen is overlaying your palettes, and so it just doesn't try to display them.
I can tell you with certainty that this simply does not happen with my test installation of Photoshop CS2 on my Windows 7 test machine.
Some additional questions:
1.  What are those extra buttons at the upper-right of each window?  There are normally only supposed to be three:  Minimize, Maximize, Close.  Have you added some kind of desktop enhancement tool to your system?  At this point I suspect this is the root cause of the problem.
2.  What video card do you have?
3.  Have you updated your video drivers from the web site of the maker of your video card?
4.  You mentioned having two monitors...  Any reason you don't move the palettes to the second monitor when working in Photoshop?  I have always found that a better way to work.
-Noel

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