Why does my "save as" window grey out?

Why does my FireFox 3.6.13 "save as" window grey out when I'm trying to save a file? (Actually it's light blue as opposed to the standard Windows Title Bar blue.) No matter what I try to click on within the box or the red X kill button, nothing is activated. I can move the window around but that's it.
I can Ctrl-Tab my way around my open tabs but the save as window is still front and center. I can press the Alt key and scroll down to Exit but Firefox still shows up in Task Manager. In fact, if I try to restart FF after Exiting, I get a message saying something to the effect that FF is still running and must be closed out before it can be restarted.
At first this was happening (started about 10 days ago) when saving a screenshot with a screen capture extension that I've been using for years so I uninstalled it. But now it's happening way too often, even when simply saving something as simple as an html file.
I've reinstalled 3.6.13 but to no avail. There is no correlation between any recently installed extensions (I uninstalled them all). So I'm perplexed. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Have you tried the suggestions in this article? [[What to do if you can't download or save files]].
Also, although it's not a complete replacement, I usually print those kinds of pages to PDF.

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