What is optimal behavior for an application when display area is reduced

Citizens,
Motivation
I am trying to get a software vendor to improve its window behaviour, and I need some evidence to throw at them so they don't do the old "Its an apple problem" speech when I bust into their office waving my placard.
_The Problem_
The software product opens windows which are not visible on the current display space because it has saved window locations when the display space was bigger. Some windows can be accessed using Window-Zoom, but others (apparently modal dialog boxes) cannot be accessed without plugging in another screen.
Objective
I am trying to determine what the best-of-breed solution to this problem is. How do other applications deal with this?
Theory
There is an expectation that the application should be able to deal with a changing environment. However, I propose that OS X should be able to detect that a window is being displayed in an inaccessible location, and that it should be taking action to make it accessible - e.g by moving the window so a grabbable part of it is visible on the nearest edge of the screen to its requested location.
Expectation
This will be what they call a "robust" discussion.
Scenario
The product in question is MYOB Accountedge.
The problem scenario is this:
* we have an OS X system with two monitors. They are the same size, but this is not relevant to this problem.
* On startup, MYOB displays a small "control console" window which has icons for its primary functions.
* We set the "Save window sizes and locations" option in Accountedge preferences, on the Windows tab page.
* From the console window, open up the Banking application (which opens a new window), click Spend money (which opens another new window) and move that window to the second monitor.
* Next, click the possible-values button in the Acct column, which opens a window on the first screen, and move that window to the second screen too. We are moving it because the first screen is a laptop, the second screen is 14", and the operator is a myopic old geezer)
* Now stop MYOB and remove the second monitor.
* Restart MYOB and repeat the above - you observe the following:
- the main window appears on the first screen regardless of where it was when you last closed it down
- the Spend money window is not visible, but under the Window menu bar option, you can see that it is active.
- under the Window menu bar option, you can select Zoom, which makes it take up the whole screen. (Some windows will let you resize this down while keeping the display fields useable, others compress the display areas so they are unusable unless it is full-screen sized - this is clearly a bug.)
- when you click the possible-values button in the Acct# column, nothing appears to happen. The Menu bar Window list is all disabled (i,e. greyed.) The Zoom function is not accessible. I can see the dialog box in Expose but Expose does not seem to offer a way to move it.
There is no way to get to the account list help dialog. It is being displayed outside the visible space and there is no way to access it. As far as I can tell, OS X does not have a keyboard solution for moving dialog boxes, so the only way to move the window so it is visible is to use the mouse, but the mouse cannot get to it.
So: What should happen?

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