Question: Pop-up dialog boxes stuck under main program window

Just purchased Maple 2015 and playing with it for the first time.  I'm running the 64-bit version on Win 8.1.

Anytime the program generates a pop-up dialog box, the pop-up seems to get stuck behind the main program window.  I can't alt+tab to get to the pop-up window and I can't click on anything in the main program window because it's frozen while waiting for me to aknowledge the pop-up dialog box.  So I have to kill everything from the task manager and lose anything that's unsaved.

I'm talking about pop-ups for things like "Error, (in @@) invalid arguments"... I click on the link and see a brief flash while that pop-up quickly flies behind the main window.  Same thing happens when I click on a link that asks what web browser I want to use.

I can't be the only one that has this problem, so is there a fix or workaround for this somewhere?  It's not really useable like this.  Thanks!