Pop-Up Option boxes aren't displaying when trying to save or open file types that have them.

Photoshop just becomes unresponsive until I use alt+f4 to close the invisible option dialogue.  As a result, I'm currently unable to do things like open PDF files or save JPEGs.  Any ideas?

I've checked all other available help databases, and I wasn't able to find this problem.  Partly because it's hard to describe, I don't even know what terminology to use.  But here is the information that thread recommended posting:
The exact version of the Adobe Application you are running: Photoshop CS5
Your Operating System details: Windows 8 64 bit
Amount of installed RAM: 16 GB
Amount of free disk space: 7 GB on the solid state that photoshop is installed on.
Make/Model of Video Card: Radeon 7870
The EXACT text of any Error Messages you saw: No error message involved, just invisible dialogue boxes whenever doing something that involves a dialogue box, like opening a PDF, or saving a JPEG.
Precise symptoms of your problem:
We'll take saving a JPEG for example.  I go through the normal save as process, specify a file name, type, and location, and hit save.  Usually, a dialogue box would pop up here, prompting me to chose a quality level before the save.  Now, that dialogue box still pops up, but it's not on screen.  I can't interact with it, or find it with key commands (such as windows, shift, arrow, which should move it if it were on my other monitor), and I'm not able to do anything else with photoshop until I force close it with alt+f4.
Incidentally, I just found a solution to the problem, but I haven't fixed the problem yet.  I unplugged my second monitor, and the dialogue boxes appear as normal.  I have been using Photoshop on my primary monitor, though, when my second one has been plugged in, and I haven't been able to see these boxes on my second monitor.  Does anyone know how I could fix this such that I don't have to unplug my monitor every time I want to use photoshop?
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