Thanks Apple.
For those of you using Spaces in Mac OS X I'd like to follow up my previous post with some exciting news regarding Spaces in Mac OS X 10.5.2: it's fixed! Thousands of former FVWM users can now rejoice as they enjoy sane desktop pager functionality again. As you know, I've been using "Spaces... Spaces... Spaces..." and I just noticed that the issue has actually been resolved by Apple. See this post on macosxhints.com for more information: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2008021122525348. To alter the annoying spaces-follows-application behavior do this:
defaults write com.apple.dock workspaces-auto-swoosh -bool NO
sudo killall Dock