Disappearing Drawings

Great progam.  I've been an AC user since 1988.  One problem encountered.  Drawing area goes black and the entities disappear.  If I run the cursor across the screen, the entities highlight.  Have to save and restart DS for the entities to reappear.  Any solutions or insight into this problem.

Windows 7 Professional

Intel Core Duo 2Ghz / 4GB RAM / ATI Graphics