Spotlight hidden behind menu bar in Leopard?

I updated to Leopard three days ago with no problems. Today, however I suddenly find my spotlight drop down box is three quarters hidden behind the menu bar and I cannot get it to appear in front of it. Weird. Does anyone have an idea what's going on? Thanks......!

I had the same issue and tried all the suggestions (desktop from expose, enable/disable spaces, etc), but I had some important things going on and didn't want to logout. I pressed the display key on my Macbook. That's the one that switches from mirrored displays to extended desktop. That did it.
It's the F7 key on my 8 month old macbook. Not sure if the new ones have it, but try "detecting displays" (I use dual displays so it sort of makes sense to me... you may not have this enabled if you only use the one display).
Cheers!
-Neil

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