What is causing my missing taskbar (makes it necessary to ctrl-alt-del to close, can't tab back)

[Christopher Mitchell]

howdy,

If this is in the docs, just point me there, but the only thing I found 
about the windows taskbar was the command to hide and show it.

I've got an app for which the main stack is never revealed to the user. 
  It houses scripts and is the container for the substacks, but it is 
always hidden.  As soon as the application starts, it immediately opens 
up a palette with buttons to turn off and on other substack windows for 
different purposes.

Well this seems to be working pretty well, except under windows this 
seems to run as an invisible application - that is to say, it doesn't 
put the title/icon down in the taskbar and you cannot tab to it.  So, 
if you're using it and tab away from it, it disappears but is still in 
memory, thus the only way to close it down is to ctl-alt-del.

Under OSX, the icon shows up in the dock as well as in the command-tab 
list. Is there any way to make this show up as a non-invisible app 
under windows without revealing that main stack?  I really need to keep 
it hidden (and not just off screen somewhere :/)

Thanks,
Chris