ITunes Browser Disappears

I'm sure this has been posted here before, but I've searched to no avail.
Under Leopard 10.5.1, iTunes will not leave the browser up on my desktop. It disappears after about 10 seconds. No matter what I've tried (resizing the screen resolution in case I dragged it off screen; dumping prefs; reinstalling, etc.), nothing seems to correct the problem. I would put the version of iTunes I'm running, but the about me window won't even display once the browser disappears. I'm positive its the most current publically available build.
It seems like maybe the whole thing started when I DL'd the last Quicktime update from Software Update, but I could be wrong.
Any suggests?
Thanks!

Hey I just had this happen to me and found the solution on this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6326926
It looks like a glitch with Spaces...it reappeared for me the second I went into System Preferences and deleted iTunes from Spaces (not just disabling Spaces).
Hope that helps!
John

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