I found the source of the problem but not the problem itself.

After reinstalling windows I tested maya and worked on it all day yestaday with no problems.

but 2day I started it up and the problems were back. The only differenace was I had copy my old prefs back in to my doc`s. So I went in and deleted my prefs and puff problem gone.

I have no idea what it was persicelly but resetting my prefs has seem to have done the trick