Dialog focus in Windows/NT

When a user opens up a dialog window in my java app, and then switches to some other program (dialog still open) and then switches back to the original java app, the dialog frame is now 'behind' the main application's frame.
The dialog frame does not appear in the system bar, nor can it be accessed using alt-tab. The only way to get to it is to close down the windows of the running apps until you find it again.
How can I get around this??

You might try passing in the parent frame/dialog as the first parameter in your JDialogs constructor.

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