LinuxQuestions.org - Weird Problem with 2.6.14 upgrade

I just finished recompiling my kernel and now i'm running on 2.6.14
The compile went surprisingly OK. Everything's running ok. The problem I'm having is when i hibernate my laptop. After the laptop comes back up from hibernation I can't see some applications coming up on my screen. e.g I'm running XFCE and I have this script that runs via gnomesu , I click on an icon and it runs the script to activate wireless, but I can't see the password prompt come up to run the script. when i do 'ps ax' i can see it in the process list but it doesn't come up on the screen.
and i try to quit XFCE by using the 'Quit' button on the main menu, but it doesn't look like its logging me off. It doesn't even ask me with a prompt that if i want to logout.
I was wondering if there's someone else having the same problems as mine and if there's a fix to this.
Also, sometimes I've noticed when i click on the firefox button on my xfce panel, it starts up minimized. really weird stuff.

Any advice would be appreciated.

TIA

EDIT:

I logged out of X11 by pressing CTRL+ALT+BKSPC and logged back into XFCE and everything's working fine now. Except, Firefox starts up minimized.