Hiding interogative dialog boxes

When, oh, when will these get fixed? It is, IMHO, the most embarrassing OSx issue in that it seems fixable yet it keeps happening release after release. People who don't use Spaces, ignore the following, but everyone else...
An app wants to tell you something. The app icon is, perhaps, bobbing around in the Dock. You're in, say, Space 2 and you left the itinerant app running in Space 4. You bop over to #4 and, as you're moving there, you briefly see a dialog box demanding some choice.
But when you arrive in the Space, the box has flown. And, typically, the application is semi-frozen in that you can't Quit or summon the briefly-seen dialog into existence. It is acting as if the box is staring you in the face but it can only be seen when sliding between Spaces.
At first, I thought this was a Microsoft crapware issue. It happened most often when Microsoft Messenger encountered a problem (common with this company-mandated app.) But I've now seen it in other applications including, tonight, iTunes.
Come on...iTunes? On an "upgrade-to-version-9.something-available" advisory caught up in the cogs?
Sometimes, like tonight, be-bopping between Spaces enough times might offer the hidden dialog box up for a click (in this case 10 or more jumps did the trick.) But I've had to force-quit applications more times than I think is righteous because I haven't been able to bring a button to bear.
Come on, Apple, this has been a problem since Leopard in 2008 when I rejoined the fold (I left the Mac world in the late 90s after a decade-long run.) It's happened in every version since on all three of my Macs -- all of which are on 10.6.3.
Heep derision on me if there is some simple fix I've missed. But I think this is an irritant which should be addressed.
- EJH

When, oh, when will these get fixed? It is, IMHO, the most embarrassing OSx issue in that it seems fixable yet it keeps happening release after release. People who don't use Spaces, ignore the following, but everyone else...
An app wants to tell you something. The app icon is, perhaps, bobbing around in the Dock. You're in, say, Space 2 and you left the itinerant app running in Space 4. You bop over to #4 and, as you're moving there, you briefly see a dialog box demanding some choice.
But when you arrive in the Space, the box has flown. And, typically, the application is semi-frozen in that you can't Quit or summon the briefly-seen dialog into existence. It is acting as if the box is staring you in the face but it can only be seen when sliding between Spaces.
At first, I thought this was a Microsoft crapware issue. It happened most often when Microsoft Messenger encountered a problem (common with this company-mandated app.) But I've now seen it in other applications including, tonight, iTunes.
Come on...iTunes? On an "upgrade-to-version-9.something-available" advisory caught up in the cogs?
Sometimes, like tonight, be-bopping between Spaces enough times might offer the hidden dialog box up for a click (in this case 10 or more jumps did the trick.) But I've had to force-quit applications more times than I think is righteous because I haven't been able to bring a button to bear.
Come on, Apple, this has been a problem since Leopard in 2008 when I rejoined the fold (I left the Mac world in the late 90s after a decade-long run.) It's happened in every version since on all three of my Macs -- all of which are on 10.6.3.
Heep derision on me if there is some simple fix I've missed. But I think this is an irritant which should be addressed.
- EJH

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