Java, frames, detaching, minimizing, etc.

I'm not much up on many of the details of frames, so there may be a quick
and easy way to do this that I'm just not aware of ... any ideas are
appreciated.

Some details, first, to set the stage: we are using MSIE 4 or higher, with
JavaScript enabled.  The site of which I speak is on an intranet, and these
standards are enforced.

In this site, there is a main content frame, a nav bar frame and a title
frame.  What I want to do is load a java applet into the content frame, and
have it magically reappear in the same place when the user moves to another
page in the site and then back to the page with the java applet.  The applet
is a telnet-like applet, which maintains a connection to a server, and when
the user moves away from the page, the applet detaches itself so that it
won't lose the connection - this is fine, but you cannot "reattach" without
closing the connection and starting it over.

What would be ideal is the ability to minimize the frame and maximize it
again when focus is requested, but I've never seen any mention of anything
like this before.  Since I am working only in MSIE, there could be some
IE-only functionality to allow this, and that route is just fine for me,
considering the setup of the clients.

Again, any help appreciated (I do apologize that I cannot give a URL, as
this is all intranet ... I could put up mock-ups of the HTML, but would not
be able to include the java applet, if this would help any one visualize
what I'm talking about).

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