Mail now forgets my windows

I'm noticing an interesting glitch in Mail. I used to always have four main viewer windows open, each on a different mailbox, so I could use Expose to rapidly switch between new mail in each mailbox. When I would quit Mail and open it again, Mail would remember that I had these windows open and go to these mailboxes. Not now! Under Snow Leopard, three of the four windows come up as "No mailbox selected."
Thanks Apple!

I hope Apple sees this and thinks about tweeking Mail, because Mail remembering the configuration of open browser windows was great for my productivity .............. (not that that is the be all and end all of the life, of course)

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Hi
I have been using Mac's now for about 10 years and this is my first problem.
I have recently moved into an office that use PC's with a Windows server.
I have set up the network to transfer files and view the windows server and it works fine.
I have a problem in that my colleagues on PC need to be able to view my emails which I send and receive using Mail. They therefore need to have logical title names and the date sent and ideally who to or from. I view them and archive them using Mail which is fine for me.
I understand about the archiving and copying of mailboxes but this gives every email the un-fathomable title name 9944847 etc.
I can get round the problem by dragging and dropping every email I send and receive individually and it will automatically give it a more logical title of the subject heading however the date is when it was dragged not when sent. This is a pain if I am away or forget to save an email for a day or two and then the date is inconsistent.
Is there a way to batch copy emails from Mail to a finder window and for it to name the files as the subject heading or to archive the files in a similar way so they retain the detailed information my colleagues require.
And no I can not get to all change to Mac and I don't really fancy using Outlook, Entourage or Parallels.
Please help.
Toby

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