Spaces not working, please help!

Question

I used to use spaces on my old Mac Pro. Now I have a new one and Spaces isn't working properly.
Very simply I assign Finder to space 1. Then assign InDesign to space 2.
How it used to work is I navigate to a file in Finder in space 1, double click it and it would move over to space 2 and open the file in InDesign.
But now, although InDesign is set to space 2 it opens in space 1.
The only way I can fix it is to open a file within InDesign (file>open rather than using Finder) then when I open another one in Finder it moves over to space 2, but this is far from ideal and not useable to do this with all programmes.
Hope that makes some sense. I love spaces and it really speeds things up at busy times!
Thanks,
James.

Answer 1

Open system Prefs, and turn Spaces off. Re-boot your computer and re-enable Spaces. Check to make sure that from the drop down menu, that F8 is selected as the key of choice for enabling what I call the over-view mode. If this doesn't work, then I have no explanation for you. Perhaps you should try re-installing the Spaces application that comes with your copy of Leopard. Also, if the F8 key won't bring up the over-all view, try assigning another key to that function. Perhaps it's the key itself that won't work.
Good luck