'Save as' file shows blank code view until reopened

Odd behaviour that I have noticed just recently (say last week - so could be after the XMP updates to CS5). I have a large number of PHP pages within a development site, they reference headers and footers etc... If I carry out a 'Save as' procedure, the orginal file stays open, and a new tab opens to its right with the filename entered during the 'Save as' operation. But instead of showinng the code in the Code View, it appears blank. Selecting Split or Design view also presents a blank pane. Note that Live Code and Live View were not activated during the above. Interestingly, if I do switch Live View on, though the Code View remains blank, the Design View renders as one would expect. If I switch Live Code, both Code View and Design View show code and rendered designs. In both the latter cases, if I switch off Live Code/View, when it goes back to ordinary Code View - once again nothing is visible in its pane. However, if I close 'saved as' file's tab, and then navigate to and open it, the Code View is displaying the code. So the code was there, when initially created in the 'Save as' operation, but was being shown/displayed in the Code View pane.
I have DW CS5 build 4916, and don't recall this being a problem when I initially updated to CS5. My OS is Mac 10.6.4. The pages concerned have not been newly created and form part of a project that has been in progress from early last year and so started in the CS4 of Dreamweaver.

Possible good news. I've been away and hadn't opened DW since also having had a problem with Finder and external drives on my return. When I opened it today, and needed to do a 'Save As' , it did it with no problem of rendering. Though there have been no DW updates, there was updates to PS and ID. So I'll tentatively say the problem has gone away - hopefully for good.
Just editing this post. I happened to turn Live View on etc.. for the first time in a couple of weeks due to the above. I realsied this morning I hadn't turned it on. Now it is just as before when I try to 'Save As' - blank, an then have to close and reopen for it to render (even though the Live View/Live Code is now stiched off).
No I don't know how to turn this thread back into an 'Unanswered' question.
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