Spotlight Window (Search field) pop-up location

Just installed 10.5 (Leopard).
On my macbook, spotlight doesn't open it's "Search field" in the usual location at the top right of the screen. Instead it opens almost half way down, and "a couple inches" from the right side of the screen.
Suggestions/solutions?

Reboot solved the problem.
However, a similar thing happened this morning on the other mac (the iMac). In once account's logon, all menu bar dialogs/pop-ups weren't in the top right (directly under their menu bar items) as per normal. The dialogs/pop-ups were approximately half way down the screen. (The only pop-up that appeared to work normally was Spolight.)
Logged out of account, then back on and problem went away.

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