latex and footnotes

In latex if you have a footnote and a figure with b (bottom) placement attribute on the same page, then the figure will be placed under the footnote. The result is really ugly....

I was searching for a way to fix this. Of course the straight-forward solution is to use the h (here) attribute in the figure and put the figure's code in the position you want, but this is not the best thing to do.

Well.. there is a way to force the footnotes to be always placed at the bottom of the page. You can do this by using the footmisc-package. By using this package you can change the default typesetting of footnotes. If you include the line:

\usepackage[bottom]{footmisc}

in latex preamble you get the desired footnotes behavior.