Why do the align controls keep disappearing from the Options Bar?

This is very annoying. The align controls periodically disappear, and only reappear after mousing over them. This is in InDesign CS4. I've never seen this happen in any previous version of InDesign, or in any other Adobe application. Here's a video.

I've often experienced this sort of behaviour in CS3 on WinXP. It happens when I've been working on the same file for a long time, and it seems to indicate that I'm running out of memory (particularly VM?). Minimize/maximize gives temporary respite, Save As a bit longer, but eventually I have to close down ID and restart. I usually reboot at the same time just to make sure. Then I'm good to go for another few hours.
Noel
[Smart little film, by the way.]

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