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One current project for North West Business Intelligence is a Google Maps application with a great deal of interactive database driven ajax goodness.  Spent a while developing the database layer trying to avoid getting caught up in the interface even though, in this case, that's the really interesting bit.

Finally got around to a little bit of interface just to test the back-end you understand and came across a pair of very strange problems.  Everything was working fine except for adding markers to the map by clicking.  Most of the code for that element was written a couple of years ago and had been rock solid.

So a week or two later an update on the "show window contents while dragging" tip I gave.  It doesn't work.  Vista doesn't honour the setting and just keeps dropping it.  A restart does work as I assume the registry setting which hasn't changed (how could it with permissions revoked) gets reloaded, but that's no fun.

I left it at that point thinking, "I'm about to move to Windows 7, that'll fix it surely", upgraded and all was fine for a few days.  Then the dreaded border box and no contents.  I don't know why it bugs me so much, it's just so Windows 95 though, there is no reason for it and it's one of those rare beasts, a problem with no resolution through a google search.