Stop new incoming ichat message open a window in foreground

hi there
When iChat receives a new incoming message from a buddy it opens a new chat window in the foreground even if you are running an application in full screen like VMware, and even if you are running in a different Spaces window. Is there a way of stopping this behaviour?
cheers
jack

Hi,
I don't use Spaces but form this thread it seems apparent you can get it to work the way you want
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10382619&#10382619
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