Yahoo! Widget Engine 4.0 has broken The Widgets Widget on Mac OS 10.4. Groups of widgets can be opened but will not close. It is working properly on Windows XP-SP2. I'll look into it and release an update as soon as possible.

Y!WE 4.0 and 4.01 have a bug in the close widget logic that is preventing The Widgets Widget from closing widgets on a Mac. A bug report has been filed and hopefully an upgrade of the engine will correct it. I am not going to modify the Widget to try to program around the bug.

Had an issue where this widget was running but somehow was forced offscreen. Debug showed a main window offset of 137.

Simpliest way to get it back was close the widgets widget then delete the registry value for the position and restart the widgets widget. This will put it back at the default position.

Navigate using regedit to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Yahoo\WidgetEngine\Widgets\The Widgets Widget\Windows\main_window

and delete the positions value (you must close the widgets widget befo…re deleting, otherwise it will save the current position offscreen again).

This was in XP home SP2 using version 2.38 of the widget on YWE 4.0.2 (build 175) More

Just downloaded 4.03 and the bug preventing widgets from closing on Mac OS X has not been fixed yet.

I have seen widgets moved around periodically, usually this occurs when changing screen resolution or when going from multiple monitors to a single monitor. When I use a second monitor I avoid putting widgets onto it.

Regards

Good news. The bug preventing widgets from closing on Mac OS X should be fixed in the next update to Y!WE 4.

Bad news. In Y!WE 4 on Windows you can no longer simply copy a widget and rename it in order to run multiple copies. So if you need more than 8 launch groups you are out of luck. I'll look into adding more buttons or allowing spawns.