Strange Screen Capture Problem

Ok, I'm stumped and hope someone can help me out.
For some reason, on my macbook pro, I can't get the screen capture cmd-shift-4-space to work. All the other screen capture modes work (eg. cmd-shift-3 and cmd-shift-4).
When I hit the cmd-shift-4 command and then hit the space bar, I see the camera show up, but it will not select individual windows. Instead the whole screen is highlighted and when I click, it takes a blank white picture. How do I fix this? Thanks.

Have you tried booting in Safe Mode? Hold down the Shift key as soon as you hear the startup chime. The boot will take longer, as the system repairs the drive, clears some caches, and disables all third party startup items (and some Apple ones as well). Try it in Safe Mode, then reboot normally and try it again. If it works in Safe Mode, but not when you reboot, then there is a conflict with some startup item.
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