Photoshop CS3 cannot save files (something happened)

Hi, all has been fine for a long time but all of a sudden I cannot save anything. Doesn't matter if I open a jpg file, or start a new file in PS and draw something, when I hit save or save as I see a dialog flash and disappear and the focus has gone from the main PS window and cannot get it back. The dialog is NOT in the tasklist, so I cannot alt+tab to it, so the only way to quite PS then is using the windows task manager!
Anyone encountered this before? I've not done anything between the last time I used it, and as far as I am aware it has not updated (but might have done).
Windows XP PRo, Dual Core Intel, 2GB RAM (tried restarting windows, only 600MB RAM in use after restart).
Thanks
Henry

>Anyway, the next time it happened I hit esc and had control again. The odd thing is that cleared whatever was the issue, because the save popup now works alright.
that's good henry, but it suggests you didn't successfully clear the preferneces as that would reset the location of the dialog as well.
hey bob levine, i've been hearing this over and over, that esc will cancel a hidden dialog (that we already knew) but that it will reset next time shown. seems like maybe something has been added to the code to make this happen as it never did before, but this is like the 3rd or 4th time i've read this...
maybe something should be added to the start of the faq on "dialog box is missing". like:
]"First: hit ESC and see if control returns to the program, try the operation again to see if the dialog position has been reset.
]If not continue to try the other options."

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