CS4 Workspace issue

The biggest, most annoying glitch I live with daily in Photoshop CS4 is the fact that my workspace will not stay the way I want it. I have it set up as follows: navigator & Info at the top, color & swatches next, Character & Paragraph next, History & Actions next, and Layers, Channels, & Paths at the bottom -- all lined up evenly on the right hand side of Photoshop.
Every time I "minimize" Photoshop, then open it up again, the Color/Swatches and History/Actions windows have stretched out much longer than I want them, and the Layers window has shrunk way down. This really sucks because I use the Layers windows the MOST, and rarely the History & Color Swatches windows. So every time I bring Photoshop back to open position from "minimized" position, I have to re-adjust my workspace windows.
Adobe recently released a Photoshop update, and I can't believe they didn't fix this. It happens on both my work computer, and my home computers.
Does anyone else have this problem?
My main question is, DOES ANYONE KNOW IF THIS HAS BEEN FIXED IN PHOTOSHOP CS5?
Coz if CS5 has the same problem, I'm definitely not going to buy the upgrade.
Thanks!!!

Just to add to the good advice above: Adobe doesn't need to fix anything because nothing's broken in the general case. Most people do find that Photoshop DOES remember their palette locations, etc. all the time. I haven't had Photoshop 'forget" my workspace for many versions now (I think CS was the last time I saw that happen). You either have some settings wrong or problems with your particular system or you're doing something specific that is causing this. Are you changing screen resolutions at any time?
Try dragging your palettes off of the "docked" position and see if that helps them stick.
Make sure once you have your workspace set up, and saved as a named workspace, that you close down Photoshop so that it remembers where everything is. Then restart Photoshop and hopefully it will remember from then on.
Make sure your operating system and video drivers are up to date with the latest updates.
-Noel

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