Spaces and Exposé in Lion vs. Snow Leopard

There is a problem with Lion's Spaces feature (now part of Mission Control). Here are the steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Let's say you have multiple Safari windows open in Space #1, and you also have multiple Safari windows open in Space #2.
2. While you are using Safari in Space #1, if you use Exposé (now part of Mission Control) to show you "Application Windows", Exposé will incorrectly show you *ALL SAFARI WINDOWS ACROSS ALL SPACES*, not just the space that you're working in.
This makes it impossible to keep our Spaces distinct from one another, because they end up all "blurring together" once we try to use Exposé.
In Snow Leopard, whenever you used Exposé to show you "Application Windows", it only showed you Application Windows from the CURRENT SPACE THAT YOU WERE WORKING IN.
But now, in Lion, it shows you ALL WINDOWS from that application ACROSS ALL SPACES on your entire computer.
Is there any way to get this feature to work the way it used to work in Snow Leopard?

I haven't tried this, in fact I gave up on TM totally, but looks like you can set it using the Terminal, not sure if you can set it for a week's worth of seconds though...
http://www.trickyways.com/2010/04/how-to-change-time-machine-backup-interval-on- mac-os-x/
Might be better to have iCal execute a Script once a week that turns TM ON & Off...
The first thing to know is that pretty much everything you do in Time Machine is going to require elevated privileges. So if you are writing a script, it should run as such, or if you’re running each command independently you will likely need to prefix them with sudo. Let’s start with a computer that doesn’t have Time Machine enabled. To enable it, use tmutil along with the enable verb:
tmutil enable
To disable Time Machine, use the disable verb:
tmutil disable
This is the equivalent of sliding the Time Machine slider between the ON and OFF positions.
http://krypted.com/mac-os-x/mass-deploying-time-machine/

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