Any early adopters run into any AE CS5 or CS5.5 specific issues?

Has this hiding issue been addressed? I'm still having the problem on my laptop and am about to upgrade to Lion on my desktop machine.

I can confirm this behavior is still occuring. AE CS5.5 in Lion (10.7.2) does not respond to Hiding either with a key command or from the Finder menu, regardless of whether I'm in the Finder or another app, regardless of the method used to navigate.

As someone else noted, it's visual. For example, if you try to hide AE, it thinks it's hidden, even though it's still in plain site. But clicking anywhere on the interface to take me back to AE does not work. I can only return to AE via the Dock or Command-Tab. Pretty irritating.

Basically it acts like a big facade over the desktop. Serious bug for those of us who switch programs frequently and need visual access to the Finder.

This hiding bug is really annoying, I was assuming it had been cured in CS5.5 (I'm still on CS5) but if it is persistent it really needs addressing.  I've tried using Mission Control but it doesn't achieve the same, simple method of hiding the app in one keystroke.  Since all the other CS applications hide just fine, it must be something that Adobe can address without too much from Apple?

What a relief....at least there's one way of hiding AE.  Right-clicking in the dock works for me, too.

But please, Adobe, do something about the hiding issue in your next update.  I'm having the same problem as everyone else, running os 10.7.3 and CS5.5, and it's been maddening. 

Premiere also crashes constantly.  This is my first attempt at editing a video in Premiere after abandoning Final Cut, and I'm wondering whether I made the right decision.  I've lost a considerable amount of work because of this. 

Yes, I am now using the defaut Mac System shortcuts, Cmd-H for Hide AE and Ctrl-Cmd-H for Replace Footage.  The problem persists, albeit the Caps Lock trick seems to force AE to hide every time.

Rick,

You're right....using system shortcut keys does allow hiding to work.  I suppose I will have to just get used to working this way, as it's only a few shortcuts that I'll have to re-learn.  However, I shouldn't be forced to have to make this change, so I'm still waiting for a resolution to the issue.  I also read your note about desktops, and I started using my magic mouse to swipe to my second desktop whever I need to access the finder or other apps.  This works alright if I keep only AE on one desktop, but in practice it's just annoying for me.  All I want, and all I suspect everyone else in this thread wants, is to be able to continue to work the way they've been working all along, without having to adopt new practices because of a bug.  If hiding were disabled because it conflicted with a new feature for whatever reason, it'd be a different story. 

Regarding Premiere, I'm running a 2010 iMac with a quad 2.8 processor.  I suspect that you are correct in assuming it's a codec or font issue.  In fact, I'm nearly certain it has to do with the codec, so I'll be looking into perhaps transcoding my footage.  The point I was originally making is that such problems *never* happened to me with Final Cut on this system using the same type of footage.  Or at least they happened very rarely, and when they did they weren't persistent.  I will go ahead and clean out my font cache and remove fonts I'm not using, just to be sure that isn't the problem.  I really do want to continue using Premiere because I've lost faith in Apple, but at the end of the day, the sotware just has to work.