Mac OS X automatically hiding windows?

This has been going on for awhile now, and I am getting really sick of it. First of all, whenever I click on an icon in the dock, other icons of apps that were open become transparent and their corresponding window vanishes. The only way that I can have two windows open at the same time is if I hold the Option Key while clicking another icon, or pressing Command+Tab. This is really ticking me off. There is a screenshot of my problem: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3199/31334029940aa2c6b75fb.jpg. You can see that the arrows are pointing to the icons that are more transparent than the others (iTunes, Adium, and Cyberduck). I have no applications that I know of that hide windows automatically (ie: Autohide, Spirited Away etc.). I created another user account, and this problem does not affect that one. Any help is greatly appreciated.
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That plist file is in your /Library/Preferences folder (these preferences are for all users). The file I was speaking of is in your "home" folder - the one with your username on it. These preferences are just for your specific account. SInce you created a different account and that one didn't have problems, this means the bad files or whatever are likely somewhere in your home account.
If you kill the dock with Activity Monitor it will just quit the dock and then relaunch it. A fresh preference file will be created if there is nothing in the Preferences folder.
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