When I place the cursor over the panel, the mouse pointer changes to a thin cross. This is a windows behavior, as the mouse is changing to its precision select mode. It might be the case that your precision select mode does not have a pointer associated with it. You can check this by going to the mouse settings in the control panel, and then on the pointers tab, check to make sure that a cursor is associated with the "Precision Select" case.
NickB