Spaces Partially Dies

Spaces is not consistently working for me. Sometimes the only way I can move from space to space is by clicking the icon in my dock to bring all spaces up and then click the space I want to go to. Short cuts won't work and command+tab doesn't work either. The only way I can get things back to normal is to restart. Does anyone have any suggestion?

I have a similar issue. Switching between Spaces and Apps seems to be broken every once and a while. The Application I am switching to is not in front of all other apps. While it has Keyboard-Focus (the typing is going to the right App) it wont get on top until i click into it or do some other UI stuff like switching a tab in firefox.
I too think that this is a BUG in Snow Leopard and not in one of the Apps.
I am going to twitter this issue so that it is more visible.

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