All Finder Windows are moved across spaces

Hi All,
I have encountered a strange problem with "Finder" and "Spaces".
Every time I try to move one single Finder window from one space to the other, it collects all(!) my open finder windows and moves them to the target Spaces space.
I have not pressed any key like CTRL or SHIFT where I would have expected this behaviour.
Kind regards,
equinox

thanks eric... i had actually tried that before but it didn't work. now it seems to have done the trick!

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