I am not getting it....

I have a bunch of objects. I select one. I press the hide key. It vanishes. Good! I press the hide key again. It toggles and I see only the object I hid. Good! Now a menu option is there offering to select the visible objects or press DONE to see all. Regardless what I select, the option pop up forces me to select DONE to continue thus making it impossible for me to work with the only selected object.... Sighhhhh. Where am I going wrong?
Lemo