Apps "Hiding" Themselves

I've been dealing with this for a while. It's been happening more frequently as of late. I'm working in one space and I click a dock icon for a app in another space. Not only am I not switched to space of that app automatically, but when I switch the space manually there is nothing there. I navigate through the rest of my spaces to find that there are no apps shown. I right click on the icons of these "hidden" apps to find that the Hide option is still available. The app doesn't reappear until I "hide" and show it. I have to repeat this for all of the open apps. Why would I have to hide apps that I can't see? I hope everyone can follow this. What is causing this problem? What can I do to fix it?

Garry Bradley wrote:
I know this is only the first incarnation of Leopard so I'm not going to be scathing. It's up to us to make things better so if I've uncovered an OS glitch all the better for the next version. It could be a 3rd party plug-in somewhere who knows.
Not annoyed, just frustrated. Apple forever.
Hi garry,
thats what I am thinking too. It must be a third party plug in , which gives you a bad time. I have installed ( with archive & install ) 10.5 on 3 Macs - 2 / MBP's and 1 / G5 Powermac - on all three everything - everything is going fine - as promised by Apple.
All of these systems ( 10.4.10) were quite the same ..etc...
So - sorry for ya - but I guess somehow it will turn out right for ya too..
i've heard today ( in a german macnewspaper) that 10.5.1 is already in progress and will adress some major issues for the people who had "bad luck"..
All my best!
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