Leopard Help: borderline unusable

I am by no means the first person to notice this, but Leopard's application "Help" windows are extremely annoying: they are orphaned (they don't show up as an application when cycling with Alt-Tab like they used to), and that doesn't matter anyway because they are stuck to the front of the stack. So I find myself right now trying to read the help for Dashcode, and yet the help window itself is obstructing me from using the very help it provides because it won't move out of the way. I have to minimise it to the Dock to use the application between reading sections of it. Ridiculous.