Dragging windows in Mountain Lion apps

I have found that document windows in Preview and TextEdit in Mountain Lion cannot be dragged around if a dialog sheet is open. I haven't tested every Mountain Lion app. Terminal does not have this problem, nor do iTunes or Safari.
So when I go to save, and I expand the save sheet to column view, and the columns extend off the screen, I can't move the document window. This can leave columns and buttons permanently offscreen.
My current workaround is:
- Escape key to cancle the save/open.
- Move the window.
- Retry the save or open and see if the offscreen control or display is now onscreen.
iMac7,1 running 10.8.2.
I also spent a good 15-20 minutes looking for a bug report page instead of using the community discussions to report this.

http://bugreport.apple.com/
I wouldn't report it as a bug quite yet, though. Personally, I can't reproduce the issue as you describe it, not in Preview nor in TextEdit. In both cases, when the sheet opens and I choose to expand the window (using the arrow in the top-right; you call it Column view) the sheet expands and, if a side would move off the screen, pushes the whole window further into the display so that the whole sheet appears.
But it sounds odd that your sheets are so broad as to move off the side of the display anyway—have you thought about just resizing them so that they aren't so broad? It's just like resizing any other window.

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The issue is this: After I upgraded to Mountain Lion (from Snow Leopard) when I use my "command" key, it randomly activates a window other than the one in focus (on top) of the other windows. So, for example, if I'm in Safari and try to copy something (Cmd+C) but I also have Word open, it will switch to Word and copy whatever is in Word. It does this with all programs (even with Finder!), no matter what the Command function I'm trying to use. If I close the program, the strange behavior will stop for a short time and then come back with another program. When Cmd activates Finder, I have to relaunch Finder and that temporarily alleviates the problem. It does this odd behavior with an external keyboard (and the on-screen keyboard), meaning that it's a software, not hardware error.
I have taken the following actions to fix the problem:
- Reset PRAM (no change to problem)
- Using Disk Utility to repair permissions and verify disk (no change to problem)
- Created a new user on the computer (problem re-appeared after importing my backup files using MigrationAssistant)
- Created a new user on the computer and imported files without importing "Settings" but problem reappeared
- Reinstalled Mountain Lion (problem appeared after importing my backup files using MigrationAssistant)
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The problem "randomly" came back last week. Looking at apps that were installed recently, it shows:
- Flux (update - but Flux was on my computer for 3 months with no issues)
- Quicksand (update - but Quicksand was NOT on my computer last year when the problem started)
- VLC Media Player (this WAS on my computer last year but was NOT on my computer in the 3 months with no issue).
Thus, it seems that the culprit app was VLC. I've deleted it (using AppTrap to clear system files), but the problem still exists.
So, three questions:
1) Does anyone have any idea why this is happening, how to prevent it, or whether it might start again even if I wipe and reinstall everything?
2) I'd like to fix the problem without wiping my computer and doing a clean install of everything. Any ideas of how I could avoid doing that?
3) If I have to sacrifice VLC to solve the problem, fine, but I'd prefer not to. Any ideas as to how I could use it still?
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