In my case the taskbar comes up after 1 - 4 (maximum counted) attemptings with a site reload.
It doesn't matter if i clean up the cache with Crtl+F5 or just reload with F5.
As written both in IE and FF.
Although the behaviour isn't the same i would suggest that the problem will be found at the same place, what will be strange cause of same browsers and ext version. I think the difference rub's on variating browser and system settings.
Additionally the problem occurs also with the standard example I've tried out few minutes ago, so it's not a problem of bad user code.
I found out some interesting things...
In case the taskbar not appears, the view changes to that if I click on a desktop link:
As you see only the start button and the menu is rendered.
Now when i close the window the hole taskbar is rendered, but the shortcut-slider cuts the menu in a half.
edit: sry, i meant if i resize browser window.