Premiere Elements 8.0.1 not showing task pane on launch

When I open an existing project or create a new project, PE8 is not showing the task pane at when I start the program.   Menu items such as get media are not working either.   I had this happen before and did reinstall of PE8 but wanted to see if there is a known issue or a better workaround for this.
Running on HP dv8 with 8GB memory (Intel Corei7) and Nvidia GeForce.

I have not been able to resolve the original problem of sessions opening without the task pane or monitor showing and the menu items not working.   Since I could create a new project which behaved normally, I went ahead and created a new project and edited from scratch, chalking it up as a character-building exercise.
I found some postings on the CS5 forum reporting success with the same model and config laptop, so I went ahead and downloaded the CS5 trial to check it out myself.   I considered using PE8 to convert my AVCHD to AVI and then edit in CS3 (which I already own) but it takes far to long to justify the small cost savings.   I'm hoping that the upgrade to CS5 will be worthwhile once I make it past the learning curve.
Thanks again for your responses.  Cheers,  Jim

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