After placing a mechanical symbol I can't click or place more symbols

Hello again,

I'm running into a weird problem.  I made a board outline, mounting holes, ect and saved it as a mechanical symbol.  I then go to place this symbol in my design which goes fine, but afterwards I can not click on anything in the design area or place anymore symbols.  Often I can't even close the placement window.  The placement window also becomes very messed like it's trying to show two things at the same time and is mostly unresponsive.  The rest of the functions are fine and if I'm using a tool(delete, move, ect) I can left and right click fine.  I also notice that the command window just repeatably says 'Select elements to place using tree view.'  It will say this 4-9 times for no reason.  

To clarify, I can click the tool bars and such, just not in the design area.  

If I close and reopen the same design the problem will still be there.  If I'm having the problem then open a completely new design the problem is still there.  Pretty much anything I do, this problem persists.  This only happens with .brd files.  .dra files are completely fine.  I can't really test anything to see if it causes it or not because the problem won't go away.

I don't know if I'm doing something weird that is causing this but I'm hoping someone has seen this before and knows how to fix it.

Thank you!