I was setting up a client's new computer (20 inch iMac - :drool:) and installing programs. When the install of Readiris finished, its installer relaunched the dock (it had added the program to the dock). I was minimizing windows when the installer finished, and *BAM*, the minimize stopped in its tracks. The warped window still worked just fine, and all the controls worked and were where they appeared in the window -- with the exception of the resize control; finding it was a little funky.
Resizing the window worked just fine and as I made it smaller, the whole thing shrank. But if I made it bigger than its original size, the window edges disappeared as if there was a mask in photoshop. I kept on using this warped window to install programs just for the novelty of it. When I got home, I described this to a spammmy from OpenMac, and we came up with a method to reproduce this:
Mac OS X Hints
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20040125013419302