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.

goto > tools > options and you can change this...........

Why don't you go back to your previous kernel, if it was working fine? There may be some ACPI issue here, and you may have to spend some time looking through the options during kernel build.