DDraw Problem

Hey, Question: Im sure you have answered this question a million times before: Given: The user exits from a fullscreened ddraw application to the windows console and then tries to re-enter the application and resume game play. Im using the windows WM_ messages for input and right now, i can re-enter the application, but windows doesnt want to respond to anything i do... --- I did this by pausing rendering before the user exits the application. However i have yet to figure out how to get DDraw and windows to start back up again. Any help would be GREAT! Thanks in advance Rob