Grouping of windows - bringing them to the front

I am curious if anyone knows a way to link or group the windows of certain applications to appear, say when only ONE of the applications is selected(clicked) from the dock.
part of me got very used to virtual windows on unix-based systems. i am trying to emulate that in some way by tiling the screen with the windows from say x11 and aquamacs emacs, plus possibly more apps. is this even possible. it would be nice not to need to click each application (in the dock) associated with a particular tiling. perhaps there's some 3rd party software that makes this possible?
any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Powerbook G4 & iMac G5 ::   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

I am not sure if I understood your question, but Expose can display a group of windows from a certain application. The default key is F10. For example, open two windows of Safari and two windows of Preview and press, F10. Pressing the tab key switches back and forth between the two applications. To choose a window within a certain application, use the arrow keys.
One problem I see with this method is that minimized windows (windows in the dock) are ignored.
I hope this helps.

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