There is an option to play Skyrim in windowed mode. I had hoped I could click in and out of the game but my mouse pointer won't leave the game window. Is it possible to switch between Skyrim and another program without shutting Skyrim down? I can't even resize the window.

should be able to have another window open.. lets say firefox/ie/chrome...then fire up skyrim, use the ALT TAB combo to swap, doing so should unlock the mouse pointer.