Steam Problems

I am experiencing two problems w/ Steam: 1) It's always on top of all other windows,on all workspaces of GNOME, which is very annoying, and makes it impossible to try HL2. If clicked while HL2 is on startup screen it will crash the game. 2) If you click on any game, go to Update News, it will crash every time. If there are Update News when Steam is started, it will crash (but it will work after that). Here's the output, although it doesn't look very helpful to me: ALSA lib control.c:739:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL plug:hw:0 err:mmio:MMIO_ParseExtA No . in szFileName: "" err:mmio:MMIO_ParseExtA No . in szFileName: "C:\\Program Files\\Valve\ \Steam\\" fixme:sync:CreateIoCompletionPort (0xffffffff, (nil), 00000000, 00000000): stub. fixme:ole:CoCreateInstance no classfactory created for CLSID {4955dd33-b159-11d0-8fcf-00aa006bcc59}, hres is 0x80040154 Win32 MiniDump Helper version 1.0.0.0 (c) Copyright 2000-2003 Valve Corporation All rights reserved. Expected argument 'ProcessId'. Usage: WriteMiniDump [@argfile] [/?|h|help] [/v|version] [/Type <value>] <ProcessId> <DumpFile> @argfile Read arguments from a file. /? Show usage. /v Show version. /Type <value> Select dump type values are: normal full ProcessId Select process id for which to generate a dump DumpFile Select path of output dump file Shutting down. . . 1 -- Ivan Gyurdiev &lt;ivg2(a)cornell.edu&gt; Cornell University