Cutting Master 2 isuue

Good afternoon, when trying to open the cut/plot window in Corel X3, my pick tool will blink like crazy, until it opens the production manager window, usually takes 20-30- seconds why might that be? Also why do I have to ungroup all of my text or clipart to get it to show up in the production window? I usually just make an eps file and open it and cut it iin Flexi, it opens real fast. I'm using X3 with windows 7 ultimate, 32 bit system.

Thanks

Mike