Applications just disappear - help!

Over the last couple of weeks applications that have been running fine suddenly seem to disappear. They are still in the dock, but when I try to access them, I get a question mark and they are nowhere to be found in the Finder. So far I have lost iTunes, iPhoto, and now my address book! I haven't deleted these (nothing in the Trash). Does anyone have any idea as to why this keeps happening? I had to reinstall iPhoto from the disk but there must be a reason as to why they disappear?

Perhaps Spaces is the problem? I have found a repeatable problem with Spaces that causes windows in applications to disappear even when Spaces is NOT enabled. If you tried out Spaces and then clicked the box so Spaces was not enabled, it will start spaces after about 15 minutes by itself.
After this happened to me, I
1) went to Spaces in the System Preferences
2) enabled Spaces
3) removed the applications I had set by clicking on the - (minus) button
4) unchecked the enable Spaces box
The disappearing windows stopped.
I have reproduce the disappearing windows by enabling and disabling Spaces several times and each time after I put applications in Spaces and then checked the enabled box, after about 15 minutes, my window would disappear. When it happens, you can press the key combinations to switch between Spaces (Control-arrow or Control-1 or 2, etc.) and it will change the space. Then if you go to the Spaces System Preferences, you will see that it is not enabled.
Another method I found on a different thread was after this happens, go to the Spaces System Preference, check the enable box and then uncheck it.
I tried this and it seems to work too.

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