Weather Widgets in Dashboard Constantly Disappearing

I've searched this forum and find several articles about random widgets disappearing due to multiple monitors and what not. But my weather widgets just vanish randomly, oftentimes overnight while the computer is asleep.
I'm getting a bit tired of recreating them (I have several) every couple of days. And I begin to suspect that they're still running, so I also wonder how long before my processor is dedicated to running dozens of weather widgets that I cannot see.
Is this a universal problem or a symptom of something wrong with my computer? Either way, is there a fix?

Hi,
I've noticed this, too. Ever since Tiger, I've had problems with the weather widgets moving around slightly, sometimes overlapping each other, and maybe a couple of months ago (I don't recall exactly when), about half of my weather widgets disappeared (I have about 5-6 of them active). Like you, I think that it has something to do with changing monitor sizes; possibly if they are arranged on a large monitor and then viewed on a smaller screen, the ones with position coordinates that don't exist on the smaller screen disappear. When this first happened to me (I believe I was viewing on a smaller screen), I just assumed that the missing ones were beyond the boundaries of the screen, but when I switched back to a larger monitor, they couldn't be seen there, either. Sorry that I don't have a fix, but at least you aren't alone.
Ken

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