Identity Vault Open and Closed at the Same Time

The problems with the new version keep coming. Now I'm stuck in no-mans land between a vault that says it is closed (in the toolbar) and one that is apparently open but not functional.

 

Here's the situation. I use Firefox as my primary browser, but I see the same behavior in IE.

 

Toolbar says the vault is closed. When I go to a page with a login, the prompt appears at the top of the browser window to open the vault. When I click on that, it displays my full listing of logins and even allows me to show the hidden passwords. Note that I did not log into the vault and the toolbar still says it is closed. If I scroll to the required login and click on it, the vault just displays the first entry in my login list. There is no way to make use of the vault in any way.

 

So, I can't use the vault. The vault remains open for anyone to browse and display logins and passwords. I have no way to close the vault short of rebooting the computer.

 

Suggestions? BTW, this seems to be still working normally on my laptop (at least normally in the dumb way it now operates after the "upgrade"), but it is possible that it is a live update behind.