Spaces - Window disappears when I turn Spaces off

After using Spaces for a while I decided it was not a feature I care for. I turned it off and found that every so often a window I am working in (so far Mail and MS Word) will disappear. It is not minimized in the dock but the application is still running. I can click on the application over and over but cannot get the window with my work back up. Closing Mail and re-opening will not bring back the window (my Inbox for instance). The only way to be able to work again is to re-activate Spaces then the application windows reappear. What's up with that?
Message was edited by: Ronald Felton1

I'm seeing the same sort of behavior.
As I flip back and forth between spaces, every once in a while I come back to a space that should have a window displayed but doesn't. A closer inspection reveals that the application with the missing window is still active, and - if I can get to the app's Window menu - it still thinks the missing window exists. But, nothing I do will reliably make the window reappear other than to completely shut down and restart the app in question. Sometimes, the missing windows will appear if I shut down another app in a separate space, but this isn't reliable.
I've seen this missing window behavior with multiple apps, including Finder, Terminal, Safari, Firefox, Timbuktu Pro, and others.

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