Spaces - Every space?

Hi all... if this is the wrong place to post this I apologize in advance. I couldn't find a "spaces" discussion.
I have a new MacPro and have setup 6 "spaces" I am running XRG which is a resource graph so I can monitor how the machine is holding up under my load.
I went into spaces preferences and set it to be "every space". Well it isn't. It's only on the first space after a boot.
Even if I reboot (thinking that XRG was loading AFTER spaces or vice versa) no luck. The only thing that works is to go into prefs, and reassign it to all spaces then it works.
Any body got some ideas on how to fix?

I'm not sure either if this is where to discuss this spaces issue, but I'm experiencing a similar problem with my MacBook Pro since the update 10.5.6: the software I'm using is Parallels v4, set to every space, but it sticks to the space in which I start the program instead of being available in all spaces as specified in preferences.
The only solution which works (temporarily) is as you've described: go to preferences and "re-confirm" that you want the program to work in all spaces. If I stop the program and restart it later, it (again) sticks to the start-up space unless I "change" the prefs to all spaces.
I think it's a bug in update X.5.6 but would like to know if others have the same problem!

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