Left over spaces preferences in Mission Control

I had certain programs set up to go to particular spaces before I upgraded to Lion. Now, the programs go to the desktop number that corresponds to the space it used to go to. The functionality of having things assigned isn't needed (or useful either) in the new mission control setup, so I would like to cancel the assignments, but I can't change the preferences any more.
I am sure that there is a terminal command that would fix this, but I wouldn't even know where to begin to look for it; other than here of course.

Right click the programs icon in the dock. Select Options > Assign to: None
Regards,
Captfred

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When projects pile up and your desktop becomes cluttered, you can use Spaces to organize your windows into groups. For example, create a space for work, another for games, and a third for chatting and checking email messages.
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From a trackpad, swipe up using three or four fingers.
From the keyboard, press the Mission Control key. If your keyboard doesn’t have a Mission Control key, press F9 (Fn-F9 on portable keyboards).
Move the pointer toward the upper-right corner of your screen.
To add a space, click the Add button (+). You can add up to 16 spaces.
To leave Mission Control, swipe again, or press the key you used to enter Mission Control.
HideMove from one space to another
Do any of these:
Swipe left or right with three fingers to scroll through your spaces.
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Press the Control key and the number key for the space you want. For example, press Control-3 to go to Desktop 3.
Press the Control key and an arrow key to scroll through the spaces.
HideMove a window from one space to another
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Move the pointer over the window, and hold down the mouse button while pressing the Control key and an arrow or number key.
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From the keyboard, press the Mission Control key. If your keyboard doesn’t have a Mission Control key, press F9 (Fn-F9 on portable keyboards).
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Each iteration of the the OS has generally built upon the features of the prior version, and usually included new, exciting, usable features.
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Apple's mistake? Removing Expose and Spaces.
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I agree too.
This is what I've sent to https://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
Feel free to use portions of the text to send your own feedback.
Takes just a few seconds and probably helps to improve Mission Control. At least we have no other chance of pushing things.
Dear Apple,
having used Apple Systems since OS 7, it is a real pain to see, what you have done to the usability of Mac OSX with the switch to Mission Control.
Has anyone of your engineers ever tried to use Mission Control on a dual display setup? I don't think so, otherwise you immediately should have realized, how broken it is:
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• You can't move windows between desktops. Instead you first have to go to each source desktop and move the windows from there to your destination desktops.
• Usually you think in "dual display desktops" not in individual left and right desktops. The organization in Spaces, showing left and right display side by side, was logical. In Mission Control you permanently have to match left and right displays of a desktop by reading the desktop number or even worse count their position, aka. 3rd desktop from left.
• You can't use your second display in full screen mode as it only shows a gray pattern. Unbelievable!
I admit, Mission Control and Fullscreen Mode have their place on a MacBook Air, but for a big screen, dual display setup they are completely useless in their actual state.
Currently reverting back to Snow Leopard is the only way to work efficiently with a dual display setup due to these flaws in Mission Control.
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I've been assuming that my applications classes (plus those other api classes above) just don't take up more than half a percent of the heap. Is that right? If so, then that's "a good thing"! Right?
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acrobat proを使用しています。
macなのですが、アクロバットで注釈のボタン（注釈を追加・ハイライト表示等）を
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with a quick swipe I used to be able to go back and fourth between all my apps with app switcher. The milliseconds added on to my work flow now that app switcher is completely missing as a gesture is going to add up to hours days and ultimately time and money. They need to bring this option back!
@IanB Mision Control is Spaces but prettier and with a new name, don't be fooled, "It's a TRAP!"
Having said that, you might want to try it out, placing your different apps in new desktops and gesturing through them if you have one display. for example, iTunes in one, your browser and ichat in another, and photoshop in the last. then in trackpad settings (assuming you have one) you can set it to swipe between all of them.
I have no use for this because I not only need the apps I have open in drag and drop distance from each other, I also have three screens and plenty of space to have no need for spaces. I also don't use spaces because if I have a movie playing on one of my screens, it disappears in place of a "new" blank desktop.
If I was able to float certain apps from staying where they were regardless of the desktops being switched or if the desktops scrolled independent of each other,I would consider using spaces and ultimately Mission Control.
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