IPhoto title bar lameness

So, I checked my system prefs and made sure that the "Minimize when double clicking a window title bar" checkbox was turned on in the Appearance Panel. It is. But, iPhoto, in all it's iLife 08 glory, refuses to minimize when clicking the title bar. How can Apple be so lame sometimes? I mean, it's a standard UI feature and their own app doesn't behave? Come on. Seriously. I am about to bust a testicle over this.

That "fixed" it. Going into the system prefs, unchecking the box, then rechecking it fixed it.
When I got this new iMac, I did a firewire transfer from an existing account on my older iMac. This probably has something to do with it not working initially, and resetting the preference fixed it. If so, that's a pretty obscure bug, and I'll spare Apple the busted testicle over something so trivial

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