White windows

Since 10.6.6 I've been getting some apps (pages and activity monitor spring to mind) that have windows that appear all white, as if they are not being rendered. They are usually sub windows, like the fonts dialogue or inspector on pages, but not always. Any ideas?

Whenever I have a weird issue I try:
Cleaning caches
Checking for corrupt fonts
Re-building Launch Services
Verify disk
Repair permissions
Thanks ... Ken

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You know... this is a "user-to-user" forum.
And posting inflammatory comments like that is a great way to ensure you get no help at all, depending on whom you tick off with it.
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