Turning off Spaces

Or has it been rebranded as something else I need to turn off?

Mission Control. (not sure if it can be turned off)

Mission Control has replaced it. Switch it off in System Prefs. if you don't want it enabled

both the things you have mentioned have been given a face lift and rebranded as Mission Control. I choose to ignore it completely, however I digress.

Lion has a new way of doing spaces in where they act as a full screen application similar to iOS.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/mission-control.html

for your issue you may want to do a couple of things.

if you go to system preferences, trackpad, more gestures, turn off swipe between fullscreen apps.

then, still in SP, go to show all and then go to Mission Control. turn off Show Dashboard as a space. This gets rid of dashboard as a space.

For good measure uncheck all the rest of the options below the one mentioned.

now you are not using spaces. see if that helps. if not, report back to the software company about how you are using lion. they may need to update their software.

give feedback to apple too http://www.apple.com/feedback/macos

I've turned off every feature regarding Mission Control in System Prefs, but my full-screen apps are still creating new Spaces. Is there no way to disable this behavior? Thank you.

I did all these things and still spaces is on. At least I thnk it is. when using an app or apps, suddenly my windows disappear and are replaced with something that looks like a default iPad Desktop.

??? what's going on here? Macbook 2011 10.8.5

I was having same issue with mouse. there are sinilar options (checkboxes).

solved. thx so much