Application showing up in wrong space in spaces application

I am using spaces. I have stickies set up to always show in space 3. For some reason when I restart my mac, it always shows up in space 1. I change it back to space 3 and then it shows in space 3. Then when I shutdown and restart it shows back up in space 1?????

Just a thought: if not already so, go to system preferences or control and click on your spaces icon and in preferences enable "show spaces in menu bar" button. See if this retains the settings after a shutdown and restart. IF this does not work then: open "system preferences" "accounts" "my account" "Login items" and use the"+" symbol to add those app you wish to be restored on powering up. (do this AFTER allocating a program to a space)
THe app will reopen on start in the correct space. Any files in use are reopened in that app.
So the caveat: the app will automatically launch open after a shutdown and restart.

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