Multiple Apps, Using Spaces, need more flexibility.

Hello all,
I am a novice web designer and still very new to mac os.
Between the compliment of Adobe apps, an ftp client, firefox, bbedit and your random textedit, At timess, I 'm struggling to keep my apps in place. I'm quite literally using all of my screen real estate on most (if not all) of my spaces.
I'm restricted into branching out into other spaces due to the fact that I'm a FireFox, FireBug, FireFTP kind of mac user and have yet to find a way to enable the usage of ONE application between multiple spaces (WITHOUT it 'following' me from to space to space).
With so many applications open in a limited space, it seems like something is always getting knocked out of place, not to mention it's time consuming always having to setup the same configuration. I have yet to find a way to keep everything rigid and in place, does antyone know of a way to accomplish this?
An "advanced tab" to further configure spaces, a file management program that enables more rigid application controls?
Or is there just a much better way to accomplish this?
Thank you.
Mark.
Message was edited by: MarkSKell
Message was edited by: MarkSKell

I've set all of the programs I need for normal projects to open on specific spaces using the Spaces preferences. I know where they will come up as soon as I launch them. Several of my programs are set to launch at boot because I use them all the time, and they are already open on their space desktop when I want to use them.
I've been using dual monitors since OS 7.5 - Pretty nice for putting all of the menu's on a second monitor while working with graphics or pages on the main monitor. The adapter you buy for $20 can be for DVI or VGA monitors.
Spaces works fine this way. I run 9 spaces (in a 3 X 3 grid) as a limit because I change spaces by using the Control + a number key combo, and you can only use single digits and can't choose 0... Still this does privide me with 18 working spaces and the programs stay where they belong. You can use the Arrow keys to change spaces, but I don't keep track of my app's spatially. I've got a list on the wall to remind me if I get rubber-headed.
Finder is set to work on all spaces so that folder windows don't disappear on me while working with different files in a project folder.

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