Sawfish often does not catch focus correctly. Example: Open netscape, open messanger and navigator. Put navigator window above messanger window. In navigatior window click: Communicator ->Messanger. As a result of this the messanger window will go on front (as it should be), but then it goes back again.
One more problem is when a "find" dialogue of netscape is open. It is often not possible to bring some window on top while "find" netscape dialogue is open. No such problem with Enlightment.
The "one more problem" is fixed already (for future reference though, please file separate problems as separate reports, if it wasn't fixed it would be hard to keep track of).
This is an auto-raise misfeature. Popping the menu takes focus away from the navigator window, when the menu is removed the focus is returned to the navigator window, thus requeuing the auto-raise..
Works for me in latest rawhide