X won't close applications

Hi All -
Got a brand new MacBook Pro here. I have been playing with the new stuff and navigating my way around. However, found a quirk that I am not happy about. When I am working with a few windows up, the red X will not close the window. I have an iMac and a PowerBook - and I have never had this problem on either of those computers. Only the new one.
I will click on the red X (with a wireless mouse) - I can click, click, click all I want. It won't close. I have used the mouse pad as well. Same issue.
I just checked and I'm all up to date. Anyone else having this problem? Anyone know why this is happening?

I'm having exactly the same problem. It doesn't happen often but when it does I find that if you click on the top of the window in question and drag it then click the X it closes.
Although the effect of the problem is very minor, especially if you can close the window after dragging it a little like I can, but it's a problem that shouldn't be there.
And yes I'm on a 6 month old Macbook Pro unibody. I'm using the mid-2009 15" version with the single bottom panel and user non-removeable battery.
I'm also suffering from the intermittent touchpad mouse click problem many people have experienced.
As the problem with the red X button is so infrequent it's difficult to test using another user account as has been suggested. As sometimes I can use the laptop for a session and not experience the problem. Other times it can occur many times. Setting up a new account to test it is only viable if you were to us that new account for all your computing needs instead of your actual account.
I'm wondering if this problem is related to software currently installed on the machine and running in the statusbar. I recently did a full format to try and fix this and some other problems and I didn't see the problem occur again until I copied my documents and application settings across. I currently have the following software open all the time in my statusbar, so if anyone else has this software installed and have the same problem we could be onto something.
Simplyfy Media Server
Caffeine
Logmein
Evernote
Time Machine
Bluetooth (enabed)
Connected to Wifi
I'd be very interested to see if any fellow suffers are running the same software as me. To repeat... I did not notice the problem after a full format and install until I started to load software and settings back in. I did not reinstate previous OS settings, only library settings for 3rd party software.
I too am up to date and this problem only occurred in the past few months.

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