Annoying problems opening add'l files in Wd 2003

[Nellie Nobody]

This is really annoying. I'll have one or more Word docs open. If I'm not
working on a doc I'll have its window minimized.

I'll double-click a doc in Windows Explorer. Both the window for that doc
and the window for the first doc I opened appear, with the window for the
newly opened doc in front of the window for the first doc.

~Or~

I'll click a link to a Word doc in our Web-based collaboration management
system. The prompt to open or save the doc appears. I click Open. The task
bar icon for the first doc I opened flashes. I have to click that icon before
the second doc will open.

Granted, this is not major. But, when you're working on multiple docs all
day every day, it gets on your nerve.