Active window hidden after 10.5.2 update

Question

I installed 10.5.2 today and now my active window isn't moving to the front on my desktop. The top of the window turns dark gray but the window doesn't change places with the window that had been the active window.
Anyone else experiencing this?

Answer 1

Baltwo - here is one of the discussions about Spaces problems:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1236790&start=0&tstart=0
When these people were losing application windows (myself included), using the Spaces commands of Control-arrow or Control-number brought the windows back.
I’m sure it is a difficult problem for Apple programmers and beta-testers to find because it doesn’t happen on every system. It does it on my office computer, but not on my home computer, where I’ve never tried Spaces. But others have said they could not replicate the problem.
I use a lot of third party software on my office machine, like iClock and WeatherPop, that could be causing this behavior in Spaces because they activate periodically to update from the internet and who knows what else. Or it could be some other automatic application that somehow triggers Spaces.
Because the very simple workaround of using the Spaces commands fixes the problem immediately, I have started using the Spaces application and on the rare occasion it loses a window, I can quickly correct it.
Something was changed in the 10.5.2 update, because the disappearing windows and Spaces automatically activating when it was not enabled has occurred less often with this version, but I’ve still had it occur with the latest version. The problem now is so rare, after a few days of using 10.5.2 I posted a comment somewhere that the Spaces problem was fixed in this update, but then it occurred again after that.
Other than losing windows, I’ve had Spaces automatically activate itself. I have PowerPoint in one Space and Safari in another. I wanted to drag some public domain photos from the internet into a PowerPoint presentation, so I disabled Spaces in System Preferences to have both available to drag the pictures because items cannot be dragged between Spaces, or at least none I know of. As I was dragging a picture from a website, PowerPoint disappeared back into its Space. I went to System Preferences and confirmed Spaces was NOT enabled, and yet the Spaces commands worked to move through the Spaces.
I’ve seen many places in this forum where you have provided excellent advice. Please keep up the good work.