Changing windows in a full screen game

I play Call of Duty 2 and run TeamSpeex on my iMac. My problem is that, sometimes while I am playing I need to get to the TeamSpeex window without quitting CoD2. I've tried F9, F10, command-tab, and command-m. Nothing seems to work. Is there another way to minimize a full screen game without quitting the application?
20" iMac Mac OS X (10.4.9) Intel C2D 2.33 GHz 1MB RAM

Yeah, I just tried it. No dice. It seems like all the keyboard shortcuts in the game override the OSX shortcuts.

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