Yellow minimize button disappears...cant get it back

I'm not sure what provokes it, but for some reason the middle yellow minimize button at the top left disappears from safari windows. I noticed it also happens to the ichat buddy list. Can anyone tell me why this is/how I can fix it? Restarting it fixes it, but only temporarily and I don't want to have to restart it everytime. The red X button and green + buttons are still there and functional.

I do not see how it is going to help. I have the same prob. Any help is appreciated.
In the Displays pane of System Preferences, change
the monitor's bitdepth to thousands of colors, or
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