Disappearing Palettes

[Karen Robbins]

Hello Framers,

I use Frame 9 (9.0p255) in Windows 7 via Parallels 6 on a Mac. I keep 
many palettes on-screen in one or two floating blocks.

This morning I opened an existing Frame document and all palettes 
were missing. Multiple attempts at opening a palette with a menu item 
(such as Format>Character>Designer) or key combo (such as CTRL+D) 
also failed.

After several tries and restarts (both Windows and Frame), clicking 
through the menus did begin to reveal some of the palettes. I am not 
sure if all are directly accessible from menus.

What might cause this to happen? Is the best way (only way?) to 
restore disappearing palettes simply to call all of them from menus 
again?

thanks,
Karen