Losing minimize glyph on spaces switch

hi there. title confusing enough for you? lemme 'splain...
okay, so, i have firefox 3.5.1 running on os x 10.5.7. i have parallels installed, running fullscreen in its own space. if i switch from os x (space 1) to windows (space 2) while firefox is minimized to the dock, all is well. however, if i switch from os x to windows while firefox is maximized, when i come back to os x, the yellow minimize glyph is greyed out on firefox. this behavior also affects other apps, such as postbox. even native apps - textedit, for example - do this. (textedit, however, is kinda recoverable because if you click on the close glyph (or, textedit>quit), when it asks if you want to save, the yellow glyph comes back).
i'm pretty sure that it's not parallels causing it, but, i've been wrong before. just one time, though. so...
is this a known issue? anyone encountered this? is there a fix? et cetera...
thx!

well, i found a way to get my glyph back without closing/restarting firefox (and the others). it's a workaround, for sure, and i'm still convinced that there's a bug with spaces. so, not that this thread has gotten any interest, but here's the fix, fwiw...
if you lose your glyph but doing a ctrl+arrow, enter spaces (f13, in my case). select the space without the problem. f13 again, and go back to the problem space. your glyph is back.
i'd like to thank the 60 people who took the time to at least look at my post.

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