thanks for your reply. It happens every time I open it.. I have started using the stand alone version of 0.9.3-win bitcoin-qt.exe.. I have left it to do its thing for probably well over an hour before with no appearance that it will actually shut down on its own..
after selecting File > Exit, I get the pop-up window, warning me not to shut down the computer until the popup window closes.. these are the last few line's of the debug file, it seems as if something isn't getting the shutdown request, I haven't read up on the newer code tech since the 0.9 wallets came out.. it's probably been about 6 or 7 months since I've really read up or kept up with the scene here...
this is the last bit of the debug log.. I didn't have it open very long but it just acts like it's continuing to do all of the network related stuff.. traffic window still show's active data and all of that and the main window of the wallet states that no wallet is loaded, attempting to Exit from file > exit makes it non responsive.. I don't think I have had but probably 1 clean close since 0.9.1.. and that was probably the first time I had it open.
2014-10-27 00:12:22 ext-ip thread exit
2014-10-27 00:12:27 No valid UPnP IGDs found
2014-10-27 00:12:27 upnp thread exit
2014-10-27 00:12:28 receive version message: /Satoshi:0.9.3/: version 70002, blocks=327130, us=98.214.82.33:49380, them=94.112.32.188:8333, peer=94.112.32.188:8333
2014-10-27 00:12:28 Added time data, samples 3, offset +44 (+0 minutes)
2014-10-27 00:12:32 P2P peers available. Skipped DNS seeding.
2014-10-27 00:12:32 dnsseed thread exit
2014-10-27 00:12:34 receive version message: /Satoshi:0.9.0/: version 70002, blocks=327130, us=98.214.82.33:49382, them=76.174.2.118:8333, peer=76.174.2.118:8333
2014-10-27 00:12:34 Added time data, samples 4, offset +55 (+0 minutes)
2014-10-27 00:12:41 receive version message: /Satoshi:0.8.6/: version 70001, blocks=327130, us=98.214.82.33:49384, them=176.103.112.7:8333, peer=176.103.112.7:8333
2014-10-27 00:12:41 Added time data, samples 5, offset +77 (+1 minutes)
2014-10-27 00:12:41 nTimeOffset = +55 (+0 minutes)
2014-10-27 00:12:47 receive version message: /Satoshi:0.9.2.1/: version 70002, blocks=327130, us=98.214.82.33:49387, them=61.10.127.97:8333, peer=61.10.127.97:8333
2014-10-27 00:12:47 Added time data, samples 6, offset +54 (+0 minutes)
2014-10-27 00:12:59 receive version message: /Satoshi:0.9.3/: version 70002, blocks=327130, us=98.214.82.33:49390, them=193.109.68.62:8333, peer=193.109.68.62:8333
2014-10-27 00:12:59 Added time data, samples 7, offset +53 (+0 minutes)
2014-10-27 00:12:59 nTimeOffset = +54 (+0 minutes)
2014-10-27 00:12:59 receive version message: /Satoshi:0.9.2.1/: version 70002, blocks=327130, us=98.214.82.33:49391, them=188.134.79.203:8333, peer=188.134.79.203:8333
2014-10-27 00:12:59 Added time data, samples 8, offset +56 (+0 minutes)
2014-10-27 00:13:22 receive version message: /Satoshi:0.9.2.1/: version 70002, blocks=327130, us=98.214.82.33:49396, them=24.63.153.124:8333, peer=24.63.153.124:8333
2014-10-27 00:13:22 Added time data, samples 9, offset +55 (+0 minutes)
2014-10-27 00:13:22 nTimeOffset = +55 (+0 minutes)
2014-10-27 00:14:36 Requesting shutdown
2014-10-27 00:14:56 socket recv error An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host. (10054)
2014-10-27 00:15:11 ResendWalletTransactions()
2014-10-27 00:15:35 receive version message: /Satoshi:0.9.2.1/: version 70002, blocks=327130, us=98.214.82.33:49404, them=74.115.75.131:8333, peer=74.115.75.131:8333
2014-10-27 00:15:35 Added time data, samples 10, offset +51 (+0 minutes)
2014-10-27 00:16:47 UpdateTip: new best=0000000000000000097c3ed1551f808bbae8081507530ebf7958a4a9ce50d0fc height=327131 log2_work=81.234063 tx=49820780 date=2014-10-27 00:17:01 progress=1.000000
2014-10-27 00:16:47 ProcessBlock: ACCEPTED
Again, thanks for any help you can give on the issue..