I think the best thing would be if you posted a separate feature request to preserve the window styles. This issue seems too mired in the whole pane/style discussion and would need significant editing anyway.
Thank you for the advice and everything Lummox. I posted this as a feature request at:
http://www.byond.com/members/ BYONDHelp?command=view_tracker_issue&tracker_issue=2965
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