Well when I contacted Rick Meyers he indicated only that a fix would be available at the next build. I thought it might be a couple of days time, but it appears to whenever.
There seems to be a problem with e-Sword thinking that the clipboard is in use, hence some of the menu items are greyed out. Perhaps it is worth noting other programs that could be using the clipboard and not load them, to see if this makes the difference.
Maybe this is another bug then, and not the usability issue I'm thinking of.
A week or two ago, I updated the manual for 10.0.6 and expect 10.0.6 to be released anytime from now to next week. 10.0.6 will be mostly bug fixes and the introduction of hotkeys for indent paragraph left/right.
EDIT: I had an issue similar to this once with the clipboard. I had to exit Microsoft Word.
Edited by Josh Bond, 01 February 2012 - 03:52 PM.