Speech recognition feedback window won't disappear

There is an article on how to get the speech recognition to appear when it wont. But nothing for when turning off speakable items in preferences doest make that annoying little feedback window go away. Any ideas?
OS Lion 10.7.4

I just deleted the .speech.recognition..plist files, and they were automatically recreated by the system. After a restart I turned off then on the speech recognition and everything worked perfectly!

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I tried turning the speakable items off then on in system preferences and restarting, and also deleting the plist file, neither worked. Thanks for any help.

Hello!
Did you trash this .plist file? com.apple.speechrecognition.plist ??
It's here: Home/Library/Preferences. Reboot. If that doesn't help, trash this one also: com.apple.universalaccess.plist. Reboot. If that doesn't fix the problem you can trash your com.apple.systempreferences.plist but you will have to reset system preferences system wide. Just do one at a time first before you do the latter.
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Well, using FCP rescue will trash all my settings - right?< </div>
Of course it will. But not before it makes a copy of your prefs file.
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Speech recognition window problem

My speech recognition window (the little circle thing) disappears once in a while for extended periods of time. I have done all the things suggested in the help including:
1. going to system preferences and turning speech off and on
2. restarting and turning off and on / turning off, restarting, and then on
3. deleting the com.apple.speech.recognition.feedback.prefs.plist, emptying trash, and turning off/on, turning off doing the same thing and on, off, deleting, restarting, on, etc.
4. copying all related speech recognition prefs from another admin's library into mine.
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hi,
i removed all preferences stored in <your home>/Library/Preferences/com.apple.speech.*
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make sure that you clean the speech processes (kill -9) too before removing these files.
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In the beginning, speech recognition worked with some commands, but simply didn't respond to most others. Then the speech commands window suddenly emptied itself. I got a temporary fix for that problem, but now I find that the speech feedback window doesn't appear at all.
I tried the advice in the help (switching it off and back on again; rebooting; deleting the com.apple.speech.recognition.feedback.prefs.plist) but it has not worked. And the plist file hasn't even recreated itself.
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All of the computer geniuses please help!
I have an ibook G4 that runs on OS X TIger 10.4.6. with 1.5 DDR SDRAM and 60 GB of harddisk.
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Could you please share more information with us, what is the error (error message)? event log? Any symptom you encountered?
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