Trouble switching between applications

When switching between applications I have a weird problem. Intermittently the menubar for the app I'm switching from will stay but the windows for the app I'm switching to will appear like they should. Most of the only way to fix this is to kill the apps.
Any thoughts?

No Not using any tricky keys to switch. Applications just "lock up" like the old days. After switching apps, can't get back to an app. It is locked up in a process that ultimately results in an entire hard reset. Any one else have this happen on an iMac 2.4 intel core 2 running 10.5.2? Really weird slow behavior lately as well. Maybe there are some prefs I could dump..
tried the disc utility thing a few times. Fonts seem to create havok so I often disable those as well.

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