"Mini" windows (with small close/min/zoom buttons)

I'm overall extremely pleased with Leopard. One of the things that drives me CRAZY, however, is the inconsistent nature of windows made with Get Info (⌘I). Sometimes, it seems, this creates a normal window, so that when I type the keyboard command to close the Info (⌘W), it closes.
But sometimes the Get Info window is one of these new "mini" windows that appear like windows, but won't receive the ⌘W command from the keyboard. Instead, the Finder window closes! Aaarrgh! This drives me crazy.
The same thing has happened with Help across the OS. I realize I'm probably alone in that I miss the old Help Viewer app. But the fact that it's gone isn't what bothers me. What does bother me is that ALL help windows are now this new "mini" window that won't close when told to with the keyboard, and worse still they float on top of everything no matter what.
Does anybody know if there is a way to turn these things off?

What do you mean?
From the Apple Human Interface Guidelines:
<hr>
An inspector is a panel that allows users to view the attributes of a selection. Inspectors (also called inspector windows) can also provide ways to modify these attributes. Pages, Keynote, and the Finder all make use of inspectors.\[...\]
Inspectors should update dynamically based on the current selection. Contrast this behavior with that of an Info window, which shows the attributes of the item that was selected when the window was opened, even after the focus has been changed to another item. Also, an Info window is not a panel; it is listed in the application’s Window menu and it does not hide when the application becomes inactive.
You can provide both inspectors and Info windows in your application, because in some cases it’s more useful to have one window in which context changes when each new item is selected (an inspector) and in other cases it’s more useful to be able to see the attributes of more than one item at the same time (a set of Info windows). Multiple inspector windows and Info windows can be open at the same time.
So Inspector windows are the norm, and Info windows are a bit unusual, but make perfect sense in the Finder.
I was a bit intrigued by the last sentence. Since when has the Finder, Interface Builder, Preview, etc. been able to open more than one Inspector?
By the way, the Inspector in the Finder can be closed with another hit of ⌘⌥I.

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import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.geom.*;
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import java.io.*;
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