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.
I once thought it may be some overheating issue as it once came back after i had shutdown and let it off for a while. however, the most recent issue, it came back without shutting it off.
sometimes it's gone for hours at a time or shortest 30mins. It usually disappears when i turn it off to let my wife login to her setup or when i turn it off when i know i wont be using it for a while or i am going to play a memory intesive game. my wife's login seems to have no problem but she doesn't use it anywhere as much as i do.
i have set up a few of my own commands but nothing critical. things like CNN, Visualizer, etc.
any ideas?
for the record, it's back now......

hi,
i removed all preferences stored in <your home>/Library/Preferences/com.apple.speech.*
and switched speech recognition on/off/on and the window magically appeared -use rm carefully-
make sure that you clean the speech processes (kill -9) too before removing these files.
quite happy to find this, this has been a real p..n in the *. Apple guys, please clean this up asap.
btw: i've an intel mc mini single cpu v10.4.6.
mac mini Mac OS X (10.4.6)

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