CS4, FM 9, two monitors ... luxury problem!

Two monitors, given all the pods and panels that now enrich the user-experience, is not a luxury; I appreciate, however, having managed to persuade my benevolent employers to let me have the second one.
The slight problem, though, is that when I have (say) Illustrator and FrameMaker open, switching from one to the other in the main monitor makes no difference to the pods displayed in the secondary monitor. So, for instance, I bring Illustrator to the front and still have a pod offering Conditional Text, Anchored Frame, Attributes and so on. Does anyone know if it's possible to make all the pods from the 'background' application tidily disappear?
As far as I know, I'm running a corporate tweak of XP ...
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I also run those two apps at the same time on two monitors. Yes, the pods for the background app do not disappear. I do not know whether there is anything in Windows that one can set to get the behavior you want. On the Mac, one can hide background apps; but do not know if there is something comparable in Windows. I just make sure I am clicking in the correct pod.
You might try setting it up so that Frame's main window is on one monitor and Illustrator's main window is on the other monitor. Then put each app's pods on its opposite monitor. Then at least the pods will not be overlapping; and it will be easier to distinguish between pods and the background document window. You can force an app to open its window on the other monitor by UN-maximizing it, moving the window to the other monitor, and then maximizing it. The next time you start the app, it opens on the other monitor.
If you, or anyone else, finds a way to hide background apps, please let me know.
Van

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