I did a search and read through a few posts of peoples problems with the taskbar, but none of them really helped with what I am having trouble with.
The programs that I am seeing this happen with is Windows Live Messenger and AIM (AOL Instant Messenger).
On my XP machine, and on Vista, when...
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