XLIB - All attempts to draw on display surface fail with "BadRequest" - linux

Due to confidentiality agreements (defense sector work) I cannot post any real code. But I have been stumped for weeks on this problem - and I have read every discussion thread I can find on StackOverflow and everywhere else to no avail. We're stumped over here and I am requesting advice or asking if anybody has seen or beat this issue.
Basic overview of the task is:
Find and manipulate a running Firefox browser on a specific display. I need to do the following:
Find the running browser instance.
Position & Size the browser to a specific location on the display.
Position the icon if/when the application is minimized.
Implement "always on top" behavior for the browser - yes we know this is a no no but in our specific case this is needed, expected, and ok.
In order to implement the above I am calling the following X APIs (in order of the above):
XOpenDisplay, XQueryTree, XGetWindowProperty
XMoveResizeWindow
{not researched yet but I think I can do what I want with a window hint}
XRaiseWindow, XNextevent
The observed behavior is:
Any API that does NOT draw on the display surface succeeds {except for XGetNextEvent - which crashes the application}
All APIs that act on the display surface directly - XMoveResize etc... - fail with error code (1) "BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)"
Does anybody have a thought on what might be happening to us? Any ideas would be appreciated!! Additional info follows:
x64 bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2
NVIDIA graphics hardware
XLIB 7.1.1
Thanx in advance for any assistance...

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