Style Drawer "Sticks"

When I choose to start a new document from a template, the new document appears to zoom toward me from the Template Chooser. But the style drawer seems to appear at the bottom of my screen just behind the Pages icon on the dock and grow to full size while it is zooming into proper position next to the document. It would be a cool visual effect, but my style drawer never reaches its destination. It stops short, appearing at full size too low and partially hidden by the document. It has come most of the way from its point of origin, but not quite all the way. I then click the button on the document's tool bar (blue circle with the paragraph marker) to close the drawer. The drawer instantly appears in the proper position and then closes. Then I click again to open it and it opens properly. I've been unable to find anyone else complaining of this, so I doubt it's a common glitch. Is there a preference file or something I should ditch?
Regards,
Matt

The plist to delete is in your home library. Go to HD > Users > (your account) > Library > Preferences, delete the com.apple.iwork.pages.plist, empty the Trash & then restart Pages.

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