Ongoing issues with Bridge

This issue began last week, every time i go to open Bridge my left and right side panels are being closed and need to be expanded again into view.  This is the show folders on the left side and the keyword/metadata fields on the right side.  Even when the program is minimized and then expanded on screen the same issue is occuring.  Its really obnoxious and never happened before.  I purged the cache files but this hasn't helped fix the issue.