Screenshot in window mode not working

I have the weird situation that the screenshot utility "grab.app" returns a blank image (of correct dimensions) when I select "capture window" and point to a window. All other modes work just fine. This is on all user accounts and with 10.6.3 (updated by the combo installer). Deleting preferences didn't help. A differently configured machine with same OS update history doesn't have the problem.
So, any clues what might be broken?
Thanks,
Jazz

Yes, it's not a permission issue. And it only happens on this one machine too. No error messages in any of the log files. This is a real tough one. I'm tempted to think that it might be a graphics driver issue. The machine with the problem is a 2008 Mac Pro with a GeForce 8800 GT. So if anyone with a similar configuration could test it I'd at least have another hint for what's going on.
As an interesting sidenote, other capture applications like Voila work fine, which makes the graphics driver theory unlikely, but well, I'm running out of possible causes.
Thanks,
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