Mission control bug -- can't always click windows?

Hi all-
I've been using Lion for few days now, and, in general, the new behavior of Mission Control is far better than Expose. I am having one problem, though, which is that sometimes, when I try to switch to another app, the window I click on just moves a bit instead of coming to the front. I've actually had situations where I end up clicking a window 5 times before it actually comes up. I don't know if the OS thinks I am trying to drag the window, rather than click it, but it is getting really annoying.
Anyone else having this issue?
Best,
-Zach

@thingsmove I would like to point out that feedback does do something.
@ds_store Saying it doesn't is a very defeatest way of looking at the OSX lion feedback box apple has provided.
My intentions weren't to give some link to play around with, it is a serious connection to Apple and one of the many ways we are able to, sort of, directly contact them.
If Apple just focused on the hardware and never it's users, I don't think it would be where it is today.
I never used spaces because they never made them work with multiple monitors (I've sent feedback about this after noticing they made it even worse in Lion). I've got all the "space" I need on three monitors and have successfully ignored "Spaces". Having said that, I'm aware of how exposé and spaces worked in SL.
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Now, I can't even see all of my windows in specific to one desktop! The best I can do is double scroll to see *some parts* of the windows on a desktop. So now, selecting a window for a specifc app is huge pain.
Worse than this, on moving windows from a desktop to another in, Mission Control will change the ordering of the stacks (per app, not the windows in the stacks). Umm, what is the possible benefit there?
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