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Thanks, @M.CH. I have already disabled animation etc.; the only interactive preference that I have enabled is "Show acquisition hints". I have noticed the gray-out happens predictably when I move the cursor off of the workspace window, i.e. onto a palette or the toolbar or outside the application.

Ray, pardon my ignorance, but how would permissions affect graphics processing? I'm having the same gray-out problems as @composed, as I described w/ images attached over on this thread: http://tinyurl.com/cqpl8g This is on a new 15" MacBook Pro with the dual video cards (nVidia GeForce 9400M + 9600M GT) and max RAM, no external monitor, working only with 2D line drawings and as much of the smartcursor fireworks turned off as I can bear. Is it that even the latest hardware can't satisfy the software? But then why isn't everyone having this problem? Sorry to have more questions than answers; just not entirely glad to have upgraded from 12.5.

Anyone else experiencing your entire workspace window fading or dimming unpredictably after almost any action? Only the current window is affected; no other open VW documents and no other apps are affected. The toolbar remains bright. The dimming persists even when switching between windows. Clicking on an object restores full brightness. Affects linework (and lines-only files) as well as images. Attached are samples at full brightness (normal); a partial dimming state; a fully dim state; and an "inbetween" state where a new line is bright but the rest is partially dimmed. Any help or leads would be appreciated!

ditto @kelrock... thank you for a simple and fast fix, Jeffery!